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Airlines lifted social distance requirements May 1. Leisure air travel is trickling back with COVID-19 vaccines and summertime. Direct flights are in vogue and on June 5, Delta’s New York City-bound jets will take to the skies for the first time from the Upstate since March 2020.
Still, while the market appears brighter for Southeastern passenger air travel than it has for a while, the trajectory toward recovery at corporate travel-powered Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is a gradual one.
“Right now, passenger traffic both in business and leisure are coming back,” Tom Tyra, GSP’s director of air service development, told GSA Business Report. “Business travel is a little slower than leisure travel. Most of the people traveling today are traveling for either personal businesses, visiting friends or relatives or going on vacation. Small businesses are traveling, but we don’t expect some of the larger companies to be getting their people on the road until after summer, maybe early fall.”