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Old Sep 2, 2020, 10:01 am
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stimpy
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I only stopped for two and a half months and have been traveling quite a lot since June 1st. Mostly business, but vacation travel too.

If you look at the airlines, you can see a lot of increase in flights, especially trans-Atlantic. For instance Air France went from 3 times a week to JFK, to once a day, and now it is two flights per day and next month will be 3 flights per day. Plus DL flies the same route. UA as well from EWR. Since there isn't much tourist travel, that means that there are mostly business people. Lots of TATL business travel going on now. Note also that the CDC dropped even the recommendation for a quarantine after international travel. I've taken two TATL flights this summer and a whole lot of US domestic travel.

So in short, I'd say that hard core business travel is already back. But the less important travel such as for conferences won't be back til sometime next year.
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