Data from Placer.ai — a locations analytics company — shows how foot traffic at several major international airports in the US, including San Francisco International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy airport, has decreased following the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the US.
Placer.ai collects data from tens of millions of mobile devices, allowing it to track foot traffic of specific areas and stores. This increase-then-decrease trend also applies to O'Hare's first week of March: while there was a 7.6% increase from 2018 to 2019, the airport saw a 16.4% decrease from 2019 to 2020 amid the coronavirus epidemic.A passenger checks in at Terminal D at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on March 13, 2020.Like O'Hare, DFW Airport saw an increase, then decrease, in foot traffic as the coronavirus pandemic spread.
There was a 5.1% increase in foot traffic from the last week of February in 2018 to 2019, but a 16.9% decrease of that same time frame comparing 2019 to 2020.
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