WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – American Airlines Group Inc ( AAL.O) and Delta Air Lines Inc ( DAL.N) said on Wednesday that a modest recovery in demand was assisting to slow day-to-day money burn rates in June after the U.S. government reported record low passenger numbers in April amid the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE PICTURE: Rows of empty seats of an American Airline flight are seen, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disturbance continues throughout the global market, during a flight in between Washington D.C. and Miami, in Washington, U.S., March 18,2020 REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Picture
U.S. airlines brought 3 million passengers in April, a staggering 96?crease from April 2019, the Transport Department said on Wednesday. Total U.S. airline guests were the lowest given that 1974 when the government began collecting regular monthly information. By contrast, there were 76.1 million total U.S. airline guests in April2019
U.S. airlines have actually grounded almost half of all aircrafts, canc