Easter weekend has already set a pandemic-era air travel record in the U.S.
Published: April 3, 2021 10:33 PM EDT
Updated: April 3, 2021 10:36 PM EDT
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On Friday, U.S. air travel set a pandemic-era record with TSA screening more than 1.5 million people at airports.
Many people packed their bags and headed back to Southwest Florida International Airport, some for the first time since the pandemic began.
Evan Mounts came from Ohio. “We were actually here when Ohio started shutting down so a lot of fear and anxiety we weren’t sure if we should travel home at that time. We haven’t been anywhere since then,” said Mounts.
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Southwest Florida continues to add jobs to the ones lost as a side effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The five-county region of Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties has added 473,700 jobs from a year ago. That means the jobs lost number has fallen from almost half a million to 23,000, according to the January employment report released Monday by Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity.
Southwest Florida construction jobs climbed by 1,900 from a year ago, according to the data analyzed from the state report by CareerSource Southwest Florida.
“Looking at the numbers, we have reached what we consider full employment, which is between 4 and 5%,” said Janeth Castrejon, communications manager for CareerSource Southwest Florida. “We are kind of leading the way on this number. What’s the best indicator is the year-to-year comparison instead of month-to-month.