The number of global commercial flights has more than doubled since this time last year, while U.S. traveler throughput has jumped six-fold since May 2020, suggesting that global jet fuel demand is starting to lift off. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been screening more than 1 million passengers at American airports every day since the middle of March. Most recently, 1,850,531 passengers traveled on May 16, up from just 253,807 passengers on the same day last year. Yesterday’s figure is still off the 2,620,276 passengers who boarded airplanes on May 16, 2019, but numbers have been steadily rising in recent weeks. In addition, the number of commercial flights globally stood at 71,728 on May 16, more than double the 29,843 flights on the same day in 2020, according to data from global flight tracking service Flightradar24 . The number is still below the 2019 figure of 119,993 […]