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"Despite Lunar New Year approaching, China continues its precipitous decline tethered to flying restrictions imposed in early January. The story out of the US is more steady with both commercial and business aviation traffic behaving as expected given the lack of changes in travel policy."
-Daniel Baker, CEO, FlightAware
Commercial Airline Traffic - United States
Flights per Day:
2021: 15,332
2020: 27,024
2019: 25,549
Year-over-year change:
2021 vs. 2020: -43.27%
2021 vs. 2019: -39.99%
Commercial Airline Traffic - Worldwide
Flights per Day:
2021: 46,556
2020: 97,020
2019: 91,616
Year-over-year change:
2021 vs. 2020: -52.01%
2021 vs. 2019: -49.18%
Commercial Airline Traffic - Europe
Flights per Day:
2021: 5,401
2020: 20,520
2019: 20,306
Year-over-year change:
2021 vs. 2020: -73.68%
2021 vs. 2019: -73.40%
Commercial Airline Traffic - China
Flights per Day:
2021: 9,368
2020: 15,363
2019: 14,308
Year-over-year change:
2021 vs. 2020: -39.02%
2021 vs. 2019: -34.52%
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
Flights per Day:
2021: 8,836
2020: 9,965
2019: 9,549
Year-over-year change:
2021 vs. 2020: -11.33%
2021 vs. 2019: -7.47%
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.
About FlightAware:
FlightAware (flightaware.com) is the leading provider of real-time and historical flight information and insights to the global aviation community. FlightAware serves all segments of the aviation marketplace through best-of-breed applications and data services that provide comprehensive information about the current and predicted movement of aircraft. Through the collection, interpretation, and enrichment of hundreds of sources of data, including data from FlightAware’s own proprietary terrestrial ADS-B network spanning seven continents and in 200 countries and territories, the company is able to transform millions of raw flight data elements and deliver them as coherent, easy-to-consume flight stories. As a single source of accurate and actionable data for aviation players large and small, FlightAware is central to aviation.
FlightAware is privately held with headquarters in Houston and locations in New York, Austin, Singapore, and London.
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