In 2020, federal government gave airlines $1 billion dollars each to keep flying EMPTY airplanes around to make it look like they were full and at peak capacity

from Christian Britschlgi @ Reason Magazine,

When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, it included $50 billion evenly divided into loans and grants for passenger air carriers. The law also empowered the Secretary of Transportation to require airlines to continue flying to locations they were servicing before March 1, 2020.

Airline Pilot Exposes The Covid 💉 Cover-up pic.twitter.com/3uIkb2aUnF

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