<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Air Travel After the Outbreak
Flying was already miserable before the pandemic arrived. Now it’s worse—and don’t expect things to go back to normal soon.
by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
May 11, 2020
3 minutes
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Recently, my colleague McKay Coppins did something that, three months ago, would’ve been considered entirely unremarkable: He caught a flight.
The trip, , turned out to be more stressful and more surreal than he expected, revealing to him an “unwelcome truth.” “The glittering allure of ‘normalcy’ that waits on the other end of these stay-at-home orders,” he writes, “is a mirage.”
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