Trump considers cancelling domestic flights to coronavirus hot spots
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (April 1) he was considering a plan to halt flights to US coronavirus hot spots as the United States struggles to contain a pandemic projected to kill at least 100,000 people.
"We're certainly looking at it, but once you do that you really are clamping down an industry that is desperately needed," Mr Trump told a White House news briefing.
Such a plan might conceivably shut down traffic at airports in hard-hit New York, New Orleans and Detroit.
"I am looking at hot spots. I am looking where flights are going into hot spots," Mr Trump said. "But closing up every single flight on every single airline, that’s a very, very, very rough decision. But we are thinking about hot spots, when you go from spot to spot, both hot."
Domestic travel has already been sharply curtailed because of sinking demand.
Billions of dollars to prop up the air industry were included in a US$2.2 trillion (S$3.16 trillion) rescue package Mr Trump signed last Friday.
Mr Trump continued to express opposition to imposing a national shutdown, an outcome that some in the country have called for to save lives
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