Europe: the slow recovery of the airline industry begins

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On Europe The slow and long recovery of the airline industry began, although with restrictions, the continent is ahead of other regions of the world.

Solo nationalities of 15 countries they can, for now, enter the block European Union and other countries on the continent such as the United Kingdom maintain strict quarantine measures in force and despite this, Europe begins to show the first signs of recovery in the airline industry.

Despite this, apparent recovery, Downsizing continues across the airline industry with thousands of jobs affected and increasing every day.

In this way, a comprehensive and interesting report EUROCONTROL, It allows us to know how the air market is reacting in this part of the world and also interesting data from other countries and regions.:

Europe

• 12,793 flights took place on Tuesday 14 of July (+ 38% with +5,229 flights compared to Tuesday 30 of June) reaching the 37% of the levels of 2019. Significant increase in 1 of July, However, the level has remained stable since then.
• Significant increase since 1 July for many airlines in particular for Ryanair with 927 flights on 14 of July, which experienced one of the greatest growth in recent 2 weeks with +285% (that is to say, 686 flights) together with easyJet (+319%), Vueling (+533%), The volley (+370%) and TUI Jet (+411%).
• High growth in recent 2 weeks also for Air France (+108%) y British Airways (+100%).
• It is expected to reach the 55% of the levels of 2019 after mid-August with 21,000 flights.
• Significant increase in southern countries in recent 2 weeks with +125% for Continental Spain, +132% for the Canary Islands, +72% for Italy, +115% for Greece, +107% to Portugal. Ireland stands out with the +115%.
• All cargo flights remain stable.
• Business aviation recovers faster reaching -17% of fall.
• The main traffic is internal flights in Europe with 11.028 flights on 14 of July. Traffic flows have increased in recent 2 weeks. Intra-European flights increased by 42%, but they are still a -60% compared to 2019:
  • (Germany-Spain +153%, United Kingdom-Spain +169%, France-Spain +134%, Italy-Spain +173%, Germany-Greece +218 %, United Kingdom-Italy +174%). To highlight Germany-Türkiye with -12%.
• After a low top of 64,000 passengers at European airports 11 of April (-99% vs. 2019), the situation is gradually improving at about 1.6 millions the 5 of July (-81% vs. 2019).

Traffic by region

USA

• Internal traffic is improving slightly since the beginning of May with a visible increase on 1 of July that reaches -56% from 2019.
• International flows remain very low, with approximately -86%, except flows to/from Mexico.

China

• Domestic traffic has been increasing steadily since mid-April, arriving to 10.588 flights on 12 of July, close to its pre-COVID level. International traffic and overflights remain stable, but low.
• Traffic is recovering at Beijing airports since early July after the sudden drop in mid-June due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Traffic is recovering in Wuhan since early April.

middle East

• Since the beginning of April, Traffic within the Middle East is recovering slightly with 911 flights on 13 of July, as well as international traffic (with 759 flights) after having decreased by about 3.000 before mid-March.
• Traffic at major airports is recovering slightly since mid-March, but it is still well below the pre-COVID situation.

The slow and long recovery continues, where some markets will achieve a recovery faster than others, always subject to the restrictions imposed by governments.

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