attendants next year alone. that is on top of a record-setting 4300 flight attendants hired in the last year. another sign of the air travel recovery from covid. look at this, we saw of course travel just plunge, this is the number of passengers screened by tsa, plunged in 2020, bounced back big time last year. it is almost back to pre-covid levels. one problem here though is of course going to be finding all those worker. because friday s jobs report shows that we still have a worker shortage. so they may want to hire 4,000 to 6,000, but finding them is another matter. and let s talk about oil. we re enjoying lower gas prices, but today some of europe is announcing embargo on russian oil. could this punishment ultimately also hurt consumers? that is what they are trying to avoid. and of course if they don t get it right, then everyone will feel the impact in terms of
soaring, and that is because they put out promising outlook for the future. american airlines has demanded as strong as they ve ever seen you see right there with almost pre-pandemic numbers of people going through tsa checkpoints across the country yesterday. american airline says it s expecting record revenue in this current quarter, they also expect to be profitable for the first time since the pandemic started this quarter, that puts them in line with delta and united, sander, which also expect a hit profitability this year. we have seen some false starts with air travel recovery throughout the pandemic with the vaccine rollout, than omicron hit, that changed everything. but it does seem like it is back for real this time. we will see. sandra: we will see is right. a very busy chicago o hare airport behind you, grady, think he. it trace? trace: we also do horrifying images from last week s subway attack in new york but even as people ran for their lives they show their face mas
The emerging coronavirus wave has put airlines under even more pressure as they navigate rules that vary by country and are being revised daily as more information about the strain comes to light.