Do you think they will shut down US airports?

I don’t think airports will shut down, but I I do think flights will be scarce because of lack of passengers.

I hope not.. DD is in CA for a wedding and coming back on Sunday. Keeping fingers crossed. Sad thing is that the venue for the wedding canceled their reception. That poor bride.

That just burned my ass to no end! Unbelievably selfish if you ask me. I get wanting to be home if you're sick, I really do but damn! He just exposed God-only-knows how many more people because we don't know where he was before he got on that flight.

I think money is the reason they will shut it down.  It is so expensive to run an airport, with security and maintenance staff, food service, cleaning, etc., and I think many of those services are paid by fees attached to airfare, correct? If no one is flying, the airports will lose most of the revenue they need for payroll. In that case, they are losing more money by staying open than by closing.

I suppose some of their funding comes from the federal government, and some probably comes from access fees that airlines pay for terminal space, but I thought there were also fees tacked onto each ticket.  I could be wrong, in which case, please ignore everything I just said LOL.

I'm in Florida, flying back to Indiana on Monday.
My husband has already said he will come pick us up if need be.

This is my thinking too. And I think SeaTac will be the first, or one of them, given Seattle's Covid status. I think interstate travel as well as international travel needs to be minimized, and closing airports would certainly help accomplish that. 

My friend is a flight attendant for SW. She just flew in at 1pm and sent me a picture of baggage claim at Hobby Airport. Its totally empty. Not one person or bag to be seen.

As long as it doesn’t happen before Monday. I need to fly to Ohio to move my DD out of her sorority house. If need be I can do a road trip back home. But I need to be at the house on Tuesday.

I don’t think they will shut down completely but flights will be very limited.

DD and I are flying home tomorrow AM. We are flying SW and got boarding numbers A-43 and A-44 so some other people out there are trying to get somewhere on that flight too. With WDW closing and some of us off for spring break, I would think it would happen (if at all) after a period of time for everyone to get back to where they need to be like the 48 hours announced for the European flights

If we do go back to school in 3 weeks , I wonder how many people who enjoyed spring break will be flying back with covid. Spring break is in the middle of those 3 weeks and that doesn’t seem like enough time.

DS is on a flight as we speak, coming home from college indefinitely until they decide whether or not in person classes will resume this semester. He said he was the only one in the precheck line at the airport and there are 50 empty seats on his flight, he has a whole row to himself. He busted his ass to get his entire room packed up and on the flight today, he had booked a 2nd flight home on Monday since he thought he’d need more time... but when I saw where this was going, I told him to do whatever he needed to get on today’s flight. (Both are Southwest so we can cancel and get credit, he flies back and forth to school so no wasted funds).

So yes, I was concerned about canceled flights/travel bans, so am glad he is en route. Good luck to everyone!

Lisa B.

Well, Norway has closed down most of ours, and the National Guard has been called out to prevent people from red zones to enter. Kinda ironic, considering we’re one of the countries with the most confirmed cases.

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