The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

One of my web bookmarks is Flightradar 24, which plots all aircraft in the air by listening to their anti collision transponders.  While for weeks they have been posting news snippets about how they are tracking fewer flights, today for the first time you could really see fewer little airplane icons on the map.

Naturally I have my map defaulting to the Boston to New York area.  I originally got interested in the web site to figure out where the tiny little dots trailing con trails really are.

Edit:  A second look at Flightradar 24 shows the planes that are still up tend more to be small private planes rather than airliners.  If you are wealthy enough to own an airplane, you are more apt to be using it.  If the airlines are slowing down, hop into your own plane.