Airlines Are Setting Their Own Rules And Packing More People Onto Flights

New data shows that, without limits on how packed planes can be during the pandemic, flights have gotten more than five times as full since April. ----------...

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As America creeps — or in some cases, sprints — back to business amid an ongoing pandemic, there’s at least one industry that’s largely charting its own course through the crisis: airlines.

Like most industries, the coronavirus has hit airlines hard, and they are eager to return to normal. But unlike many others, the companies have received billions in dedicated relief funding with very little federal oversight on how to ramp up operations safely.

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