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"As the summer continues on, we're watching air travel maintain leads over 2021 traffic in most areas. Business aviation traffic in the United States has shown positive growth over 2021 and 2020, and exceeded 2019 traffic by 24%. Commercial traffic is slowly closing the gap on 2019 levels."
- James Sulak, President, FlightAware
Interactive US Cancellations and Delays Report
Due to the high interest in delays and cancellations, our team has developed an interactive Delays and Cancellations Report in Tableau.
Commercial Airline Traffic - United States
Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - United States
Weekly Average | July 25 - July 31
Flights per Day:
2022: 25,829
2021: 24,785
2020: 14,956
2019: 30,964
Year-over-year change:
2022 vs. 2021: +4%
2022 vs. 2020: +73%
2022 vs. 2019: -17%
Commercial Airline Traffic - Worldwide
Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - Worldwide
Weekly Average | July 25 - July 31
Flights per Day:
2022: 89,995
2021: 73,674
2020: 49,624
2019: 107,836
Year-over-year change:
2022 vs. 2021: +22%
2022 vs. 2020: +81%
2022 vs. 2019: -17%
Commercial Airline Traffic - Europe
Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - Europe
Weekly Average | July 25 - July 31
Flights per Day:
2022: 24,830
2021: 18,061
2020: 10,610
2019: 28,406
Year-over-year change:
2022 vs. 2021: +37%
2022 vs. 2020: +134%
2022 vs. 2019: -13%
Commercial Airline Traffic - China
Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - China
Weekly Average | July 25 - July 31
Flights per Day:
2022: 10,406
2021: 12,224
2020: 11,369
2019: 15,123
Year-over-year change:
2022 vs. 2021: -15%
2022 vs. 2020: -8%
2022 vs. 2019: -31%
Commercial Airline: Any scheduled passenger airline flights. The FAA refers to these as Part 121 and Part 129 traffic. The airline numbers shown in this report do not include canceled flights.
Business Aviation Traffic - United States
Quick Stats: Business Aviation Traffic - United States
Weekly Average | July 25 - July 31
Flights per Day:
2022: 13,442
2021: 13,364
2020: 9,142
2019: 10,821
Year-over-year change:
2022 vs. 2021: +1%
2022 vs. 2020: +47%
2022 vs. 2019: +24%
Business Aviation: Any turbine general aviation flights that are not commercial or cargo airlines. The FAA refers to these as Part 91 or 135 traffic.
Interactive US Cancellations and Delays Report
Due to the high interest in delays and cancellations, our team has developed an interactive Delays and Cancellations Report in Tableau.
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