ZNH - Decades of airline passenger traffic growth eroded in 2020: Cirium

In its 2020 review of aviation and air travel, global aviation data firm Cirium estimated passenger traffic to be down 67% Y/Y in 2020 indicating traffic at 1999 levels; Asia-Pacific continues to handle over a third of world passenger traffic.Travel restrictions to curb COVID-19 forced airlines to cut flights by 49%, from 33.2M in 2019 to 16.8M during 2020.Scheduled passenger flights dropped significantly to a marginal 13.6K globally on April 25, when the pandemic was at its peak levels; this is in comparison to Jan.3, 2020 when Cirium tracked 95K+ scheduled passenger flights globally.Only 3.8M flights flown internationally in 2020; 77% (13M flights) of all flights were domestic.In 2020, domestic travel was down 40% from 21.5M flights in 2019, while international flights were 68% below the 11.7M flights tracked in 2019.As per Cirium data analysis, Southwest Airlines operated the most flights globally (and in North America), with 854.8K flights in total; China Southern Airlines (487.7K

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Decades of airline passenger traffic growth eroded in 2020: Cirium