Only 30,140 passengers flew in or out of Hopkins in April of this year. That’s not only down from 2019 but the previous month, as the coronavirus was asserting itself as a global pandemic and shelter-in-place orders were declared across the country. More than 430,292 passengers still came through the airport in March. In February, more than 700,000 passengers traveled through Hopkins.
It was not only passenger behavior that accounted for the dive. Airline offerings were radically scaled back as well. Frontier, for example, eliminated all its routes from Hopkins except to Orlando at the beginning of April.
Like other airports, Hopkins will have federal help weathering this storm. It looks like the Cleveland airport should get upwards of $46 million as part of the stimulus package.
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This article appears in May 20-26, 2020.
Did the number of Cleveland city officials violating TSA security protocols also decline?
Live in Westpark. Been nice and quite.
Shutdown hasn’t stopped the wingnuts, either. Just the opposite.
And yeah, the main runway is 2.5 miles from my house. Normally, they fly right over us when they land. Very few landings for the last two months. Never seen (or heard) such piece and quiet.
No matter what other BS is happening (or not happening), when the air traffic resumes, and reaches early March levels, only THEN will we really be “back to normal.”
OOPS…that’s PEACE and quiet. No falling pieces to report, although the big Fed Ex planes are always quite low.