Shocking collapse in Canadian visitors to the US

[nottyboi]

I won't even CONNECT through USA under this regime. I will pay a few hundred more to avoid it.

 

[nottyboi]

What's your point? If you are transiting, you bring very, very little to the US economy. A minimal portion of your flight tickets and maybe a coffee or a beer in the layover?

Not really, transit passengers help maintain the critical mass of the US airline network. With that network some people stay and some people connect, but when volumes drop, flight get more expensive, frequency drop and the network starts to fray.