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Planes parked at the Frankfurt airport. April image.
Even before the second wave of the covid pandemic, much of the flight had been canceled, at least temporarily.
The rapid spread of the virus in the UK is now causing further unrest in the aviation industry.
In November, there were only half the active flight routes in Europe as in the same month of 2019. The trade association ACI Europe, in its annual report on air connections, counts 6,064 routes to and from European airports in November this year. Last year, the figure was 12,065.
Those most affected by the effects of travel accidents during the pandemic are UK airports.
And the situation does not seem to improve. A host of countries decided on Sunday and Monday to halt flights to and from the UK due to the rapid spread of the corona mutation discovered there.
The best-performing flight centers during the pandemic are in Russia and Turkey, according to the report.
99 percent
The ACI statistics do not count passengers, but rather “hub connectivity”, that is, how close and active the network is between different countries and airports. During the spring closures, the collapse was near total, with declines of 98, 99 and 96 percent respectively in April, May and June.
Flight centers are divided into three size categories. The largest, such as London – Heathrow and Frankfurt, along with the smallest, such as Arlanda, Copenhagen and Oslo, have performed “best”, minus 84 percent so far this year. The middle axis, which includes Helsinki and Madrid, has fallen 91 percent.
As an industry association, ACI “believes that Europe will not be able to come back and move forward without reestablishing aviation networks”, and that pandemic support packages must include specific measures to help aviation.
“Significant impact”
Recent emergency measures in several countries to stop air traffic to and from the UK are believed to lead to disruptions across Europe, according to the aviation security organization Eurocontrol.
“The network has been significantly affected due to the new variant (of the coronavirus) in the UK,” wrote its chief executive, Eamonn Brennan, on Twitter.
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