JetBlue slashes flights by 80% from its New York-area home as coronavirus spreads

Airline passenger traffic is plunging. Yesterday, 154,080 people traveled by plane. The same day last year? 2,300,000.

New York-based JetBlue is slashing flights in the metropolitan area by 80% because of the coronavirus.

The CDC has recommended people in the tri-state area to refrain nonessential domestic travel for two weeks.Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe New York-based carrier is cutting its roughly 200 daily flights in the metropolitan area by 80% to 40 a day, the company told employees in a memo that was reviewed by CNBC.

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