'I am looking where flights are going into hot spots. Some of those flights I didn't like from the beginning,' Trump said at a White House coronavirus briefing.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration is considering halting some domestic flights and rail lines between coronavirus "hot spots," or cities where COVID-19 has hit hard.
Airlines have slashed thousands of flights in a race to shrink to meet paltry demand and some executives have been forced to consider the chances of a broader shutdown of U.S. flights. "I am looking where flights are going into hot spots. Some of those flights I didn't like from the beginning," Trump said at a White House briefing on the pandemic. Asked about rail travel, Trump said it was a "similar thing.""Closing up every single flight on every single airline, that's a very, very, very rough decision," Trump said. "But we are thinking of hot spots, where you go from spot to spot, both hot.
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