During the first week of April, the number of people passing through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints was just 5% of the amount going through airport security in the same period last year.
This data illustrates the decline of air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the first seven days of April, an average of 119,000 people were processed daily by TSA security. Last year, that figure was 2.3 million.
On Tuesday, April 7, just 97,130 people went through TSA security, down from 2,091,056 from the same Tuesday the previous year. The agency, created two months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, is responsible for security at nearly 440 airports. On average, the Federal Aviation Administration handles more than 44,000 flights carrying 2.7 million passengers.
TSA screenings by day
Hovering over the graph compares a day in March or April 2020 with the equivalent weekday in 2019
