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How many flights were there before and how many are there now in the world? We review some data to understand how the airline industry recovery.
The 2020 closed with a cumulative drop in 41.7% of flights vs. 2019, with its lowest peak in mid-April last year and having shown a slight improvement due to peak travel season in December 2020 according to data from Flight Radar 24.
With this initial context we can review how the recovery of the airline industry is progressing from the point of view of the number of flights operating.
In red we can see the flights in the 2019 who reached a record of more than 135.000 thousand weekly operations. In light blue we have the flights of the 2020, donde en su pico más bajo no llegó ni a más de 25 thousand weekly flights.
Desde la reanudación de los vuelos a nivel mundial vemos algo de incremento y ligera flexibilidad de algunos gobiernos, and we can see how since February a constant improvement has been achieved in black, but at a slower rate than expected.
Esta situación se da debido a que los países que abrieron, volvieron a poner restricciones y los que no han cambiado sus políticas tampoco han logrado una greater confidence in users to see a strong increase in flights.
Pero no es igual en todos los países, For example, China and the United States are leading the recovery of their domestic flights and are the indicators that have allowed users to fly thanks to their vaccination campaigns..
Currently bordering the 70 thousand weekly flights in the world today, The airline industry hopes that measures such as the entry of vaccinated people into Europe and the recovery of key industries such as Brazil, The United Kingdom and Asia allow us to continue recovering frequencies, destinations and above all, passengers.
It is important to indicate that the data reviewed here are only an indicator that serves to know a point of recovery, but they do not necessarily imply that all flights are passenger flights (many passenger planes fly with cargo), nor that the average occupancy is equal to or better than the 2019, given that the reality is that although flights have increased, Not in all regions the means of employment are favorable for the industry.
The recuperation
In this way, IATA indicates the following more specific data about the long recovery process:
- Total air travel demand in March 2021 (measured in revenue passenger-kilometres or RPK) decreased a 67,2% compared to March 2019. That was an improvement over the decrease in 74,9% registered in February 2021 compared to February 2019. The best performance was driven by domestic markets, especially in China. International traffic remained highly restricted.
- International passenger demand in March was a 87,8% lower than March 2019, a very small improvement with respect to the decrease in 89,0% registered in February 2021 compared to two years ago.
- Total domestic demand decreased by 32,3% compared to pre-crisis levels (March of 2019), and improved a lot compared to February 2021, when national traffic decreased 51,2% compared to the period of 2019. All markets, except Brazil and India, showed an improvement compared to February 2021, China being the key contributor, as already noted.
It is important now that all governments in the world give flexibility to the airline industry to operate without restrictions by presenting negative tests as the first step and second with the vaccination card., taking into account that in the world there are already more than 380 millions of people fully vaccinated.
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