Global aviation data firm Cirium released its new Airline Insights Review 2020 which reveals the deep impact on aviation of worldwide travel restrictions to curb COVID-19. The report shows that the pandemic and its consequences wiped out 21 years of global passenger traffic growth in a matter of months, reducing traffic in 2020 to levels last seen in 1999. In comparison to last year, passenger traffic is estimated to be down 67% in 2020. At the peak of the disruption in April, scheduled passenger flights dropped significantly to just 13,600 globally on 25 April, compared to the year’s busiest day on 3 January when Cirium tracked more than 95,000 scheduled passenger flights globally. This marks an extraordinary 86% reduction in flights. From January to December airlines operated 49% fewer flights in 2020 compared to 2019—down from 33.2 million flights to just 16.8 million (to 20 December). Domestic travel was […]