Originally Posted by
infrequentflyer789
Many would say, with some justification, that trying to "keep air travel numbers up" makes absolutely no sense while fighting a global pandemic.
We are not even trying to keep train travel numbers up, or bus travel - quite the contrary with social distancing rules still in place.
From Bloomberg:
Real-world data bodes well for flying, too. Australia has been using contact tracing to investigate Covid transmission on hundreds of flights, and has found that while infected people got on planes, nobody got infected on a plane. Worldwide, there have been a couple of individual transmissions possibly linked to flights, but no superspreading-type events.
If train or bus travel involved using air-conditioning that was anywhere near as good as in an airliner, then this attempted comparison with air travel might not be the 'chalk and cheese' comparison that it is now.