Airport traffic is bouncing back in Texas since the COVID-19 pandemic

Editor’s note: This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Sunday, July 7, saw a record three million travelers go through American airports. After a couple years of depressed travel numbers following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more Americans than ever before are taking to the skies. But not all states have returned to pre-pandemic levels of air travel yet. In Texas, airport traffic decreased 54% in 2020...