“Yesterday was the highest number of passenger volume since the pandemic started,” Lisa Farbstein, a TSA spokeswoman, said Monday. By comparison, Farbstein said, New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport or the Los Angeles International Airport would each have about 100,000 people a day flying through before the pandemic. One challenge for the TSA is trying to figure out staffing levels to meet the number of travelers. “We’re seeing a spike in cases where we’re seeing a spike in the community,” she said. Larger airports, including in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, New York, Atlanta and Orlando, have had high numbers of employees with the virus, TSA officials said.

Source: Washington Post December 28, 2020 16:55 UTC