As flights continue to decline, Europe is expected to be the worst affected region



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“Despite the expectation that the current difficult situation in the aviation sector will begin to improve with the widespread use of the vaccine, the latest IATA economic forecast suggests that Europe will be the most affected region in the global context next year, with airlines suffering the biggest losses ($ 11.9 billion) and the lowest EBIT margin will be reached, decreasing 9.5 percent.

According to preliminary calculations, passenger traffic (measured in RPK, when estimating revenue, number of passengers and kilometers) has decreased by 70% this year, so the European region currently has the worst results, except for Africa and Middle East, which is even smaller ”, says HE Oro Navigacija. ”Managing Director Marius Beliūnas.

Compared to November last year, air traffic decreased by 54 percent. and amounted to almost 9 thousand. the number of flights in transit decreased by 49%. (7.3 thousand flights).

In November, the most frequent transit flights through Lithuania went to the Russian Federation: air traffic controllers served 2,307 flights. In second place – Germany, 1,143 flights were served, in third place China – 437 flights were served.

“Last month, most of the flights from Lithuania were to Riga (117 flights), Warsaw (70 flights) and London (69 flights),” says M. Belūnas when summarizing the results of the flights served.

In November this year, the largest number of flights in Lithuanian airspace was operated by the Russian airline Aeroflot (516 flights), the Russian airline Ural (447 flights) and the Latvian airline Air Baltic, whose planes flew 424 times over Lithuania on last month.

Last month, planes took off and landed at Vilnius airport most of the time: 1,051 planes or 72 percent of them were served here. less than at the same time last year. 295 aircraft were serviced at Kaunas airport (60% less than last year) and 106 aircraft were serviced at Palanga airport (69% less than last year). In Šiauliai, meanwhile, air traffic controllers served 31 percent. more aircraft than in November last year (218 aircraft).

The peak day of the month was November 12. That day, 350 planes flew through the Lithuanian sky.



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