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						<p>Big US airlines say they&#8217;re seeing bookings drop amid a nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that&#8217;s made holiday travel particularly risky.</p>
<p>American, United and Southwest have reported decreased demand for air travel as COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations surged to record highs and sparked renewed lockdowns in some parts of the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s really too soon to tell how deep and how long there may be a depressed environment but we’ve seen some weakening of bookings,&#8221; American president Robert Isom said at Thursday&#8217;s Skift Aviation Forum, <strong>according to CNBC</strong>.</p>
<p>United likewise warned of a &#8220;deceleration&#8221; in bookings and an increase in cancellations over the last week that it attributed to the spike in coronavirus infections. The Chicago-based carrier <strong>said</strong>&nbsp;it expects its scheduled flight capacity for the final three months of the year to shrink at least 55 percent from last year&#8217;s levels.</p>
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<p>United &#8220;does not currently expect the recovery from COVID-19 to follow a linear path and, as such, the company&#8217;s actual flown capacity may differ materially from its currently scheduled capacity,&#8221; the airline said in a Thursday regulatory filing.</p>
<p>The comments came a week after Dallas-based Southwest <strong>said</strong> it had seen a slowdown in its &#8220;improving revenue trends,&#8221; though the company said it was unclear whether that was directly related to the coronavirus surge.</p>
<p>The warnings suggest airlines will face further pressure from the pandemic during the holiday travel season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has <strong>urged Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving</strong> because of the US&#8217;s high infection rates.</p>
<p>While demand for air travel has recovered since the virus first struck this spring, passenger volumes for US airlines are still 63 percent below where they were a year ago despite carriers&#8217; efforts to show that flights are safe, according to industry group <strong>Airlines for America</strong>.</p>
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