Originally Posted by
Super Mario
While it isn't my thesis statement on air travel patterns, 30 million people cruise per year. How do you think most of them get to the port? It's actually a very good example of the multiple pieces of air travel's recovery.
It's an example of a very small piece of air travel. Even if you assume nobody drives to the port, a casual glance at TSA passenger
stats YTD 2023 (and 2019 for that matter) seem to hover around 2 million +/- a couple hundred thousand pax per day. Cruise bound pax are a rounding error to overall air travel - using your numbers vs TSA pax.