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| Above, the Albuquerque Sunport was like a ghost town last year. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Happy Labor Day!
This marks the end of the summer vacation season and there are thousands who have suffered from "cabin fever" over a year and a half and are taking to the skies.
The Albuquerque Sunport is seeing more people traveling than during the 2020 Labor Day weekend.
According to KRQE:
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – This Labor Day weekend people are on the go and travelers at the Albuquerque International Sunport say there are plenty of full flights. Kirsten Maliny is visiting New Mexico and she shares, “The first plane I was on was very crowded, so there was no possible way to social distance but everybody kept their mask on.”
The Sunport says its most recent seven-day average of passengers traveling through is about 11,000 per day. That’s still significantly down from pre-COVID numbers but a jump from last year. “In the early to mid-summer, we were seeing really big increases but now, they’re starting to level out,” said Jonathan Small, a Sunport spokesperson.
Some travelers say they are still taking extra precautions while flying to stay safe from COVID-19. Officials say the Albuquerque Sunport is keeping up all of the same COVID-safe procedures they implemented at the start of the pandemic. Small shares, “Additional hand sanitizer stations, plexiglass partitions on every counter, social distancing indicators throughout the terminal.”
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