After the COVID-19 lockdown, travelers are slowly starting to return to airports — although the numbers are still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported a record-high number of passengers since the coronavirus pandemic shut down travel earlier this year. On the Friday before Labor Day, Sept. 4, 968,673 people passed through TSA checkpoints across the country. It was the first time since mid-March that the TSA screened more than 900,000 travelers in one single day. But that’s still nowhere near the 2.2 million passengers that the TSA had processed exactly one year earlier. A report from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), released Tuesday, revealed that there were 73 percent fewer airline passengers in July 2020 than in July 2019. Although
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What You Need to Know About REAL ID
The deadline for REAL ID is once again extended, but this time until October 1, 2020. There has been a lot of confusing news out there about the true deadline and deadline extensions. REAL ID affects everyone who flies domestically, so it’s important for you to know what’s really going on so you can help your clients be prepared. Starting on January 22, 2018, if a traveler’s driver’s license or ID card is issued by a State that is not compliant with REAL ID and has not received an extension, the traveler must present an alternate form of acceptable ID. According to this page on the Department of Homeland Security's website, however, all states are either compliant or have been granted an