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China-Australia flights approaching pre-pandemic levels

Capital Airlines, the Beijing-based subsidiary of Hainan Airlines, announced it will begin its second regular connection between China and Melbourne as of June 16th….

Aviation business

Comeback kid: the A380’s post-Covid story

In February 2019, as part of its order for 40 A330-900s and 30 A350-900s, Emirates downsized its remaining commitments for the A380, the world’s largest passenger plane…

Aviation business

The Chinese roller coaster: air traffic in China during COVID-19

Air traffic in China dropped over 80% from the third week of January 2020 to the third week of February 2020, as the country…

Aviation business

Commercial flights trend downward in January

Commercial flights reversed gains made in the last few months of 2020, falling 9.1% from December 2020. Year-over-year in January, commercial flights were down…

Aviation business

Commercial flights down 42% in 2020

Commercial flights ended 2020 down 41.7% from 2019. Total flights finished the year 27% below 2019 levels. Commercial traffic continued its slow rebound in…

Aviation business

Commercial flights remain down 40% in November

Commercial flights in November were down 39.8% from 2019, a slight improvement from October when flights were 42.4% lower than a year prior. November…

Aviation business

Commercial flights top 50,000 for the first time since March

Flightradar24 tracked 50,051 commercial flights on 18 June, the first time since 24 March that more than 50,000 commercial flights took to the sky….

Aviation business

US Business Aviation hard hit by COVID-19

Flightradar24 Note: In the latest in a series of analyses of Flightradar24 data, ICF examines business aviation in the US to see how the…

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Then and now: visualizing COVID-19’s impact on air traffic

We‘ve compiled statistics and charted the dramatic decline in air traffic caused by COVID-19, but what does that actually look like on the map?…

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Learning from the curve: Chinese aviation may offer early signs of a COVID-19 recovery

Flightradar24 Note: Airlines and governments have reacted to the spread of COVID-19 with varying speed and levels of restrictions. With Flightradar24 data, ICF examined…