Airlines had a lot to celebrate last week, as the TSA screened more than 2.45 million passengers through US airports on Sunday — not far off the numbers from 2019.
Unfortunately for the travel sector (and all of us personally), Omicron put a dampener on the revival.
Almost overnight, travel restrictions were tightened or re-introduced. Many of those restrictions targeted South Africa (and its neighbors) which was the first country to detect and then report the variant to the WHO, although many other countries — 19 to be exact — have now reported cases of the variant.
It might be 2022, or probably even beyond, until air travel is fully feeling itself again.
