¿Cuáhow many flights there areíeven before and cuáthere are now in the world? We review some data to understand cóhow the recover usón of the industry toérea.
The 2020 cerró with a caíaccumulated day of 41.7% of flights vs. 2019, with on pico más low in mid-Aprilñor passed and having shown a slight betterífor high travel season in December 2020 themselvesún data of Flight Radar 24.
With this initial context we can review cónow we move forward and recover it for usón of the industry toéarea from the point of view of núgroup of flights operating.
In red we can see the flights in the 2019 that they reached a récord of más de 135.000 thousand weekly operations. In light blue we have the flights of the 2020, where at its peak más low did not arriveó is a más de 25 thousand weekly flights.
Since the resumptionóIn flights worldwide we see some increase and slight flexibility from some governments, and we can see how since February a constant improvement has been achieved in black, but at a slower rate than expected.
Esta situationón is given because the paíyou know they opened, They put restrictions back and those who have not changed their policiesíticas have not achieved a greater confidence in users to see a strong increase in flights.
But it is not the same in all countries.íses, For example, China and the United States lead the recoveryón of their flights sunéaesthetics and are the indicators that have allowed users to fly thanks to theirñvaccination aceón.
Currently bordering the 70 thousand weekly flights in the world per dayífrom today, the industry toéArea hopes that measures such as the entry of vaccinated people into Europe and the recoveryón 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 note that the data hereí reviewed are only an indicator that serves to know a point in the recovery.ón, but they do not necessarily imply that all flights are passenger flights (many passenger planes fly with cargo), nor that the average occupancyón 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 occupationón are favorable for the industry.
The recoveryón
In this way, IATA indicates the following data máspecific information about the long recovery processón:
- The total demand for travel toéprisoners in March 2021 (measured in passenger-kilometersómeters of income or RPK) decreasedó a 67,2% in comparisonón with March of 2019. That was an improvement over the decrease.ón of the 74,9% registered in February 2021 in comparisonón with February 2019. The best performanceñor was it driven by national markets, especially in China. The tráI'm international eitheró being very restricted.
- International passenger demand in March was a 87,8% lower than March 2019, a very small improvementña with respect to the decline of 89,0% registered in February 2021 in comparisonón with ago two toños.
- Total domestic demand decreasedó a 32,3% in comparisonón with pre-crisis levels (March of 2019), and betteró much compared to February 2021, when the tránational price decreasedó a 51,2% in comparisonón with the período de 2019. All markets, except Brazil and India, showed an improvement comparedón with February 2021, China being the key contributor, as I already knowñaló.
It is important now that all governments in the world give flexibility to the industry toéArea to operate without restrictions by presenting negative tests as the first step and second with the cardé of vaccinationón, taking into account that in the world there are already más de 380 millions of people fully vaccinated.
