--- title: "Aviation Stats Update: May 25, 2021" description: After a month of seeing little change in flight activity in Europe, we are excited to report a 16% increase in commercial flight traffic in the last two weeks. image: https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/Media%20Advisory.png --- [![arrow left](https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FA_Header_Footer/images/nav/left-chevron.png) Back to Flight Tracking ](https://www.flightaware.com) ![](https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FA_Header_Footer/images/nav/icon-close.svg) [![FlightAware](https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FA_Header_Footer/images/nav/flightaware-logo-color.svg) ](https://flightaware.com) - Products Data Products - [![](https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FA_Header_Footer/images/nav/icon-aeroapi.png) AeroAPI Flight data API with on-demand flight status and flight tracking data. ](https://www.flightaware.com/commercial/aeroapi/) - [![](https://blog.flightaware.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FA_Header_Footer/images/nav/icon-firehose.png) FlightAware Firehose Streaming flight data feed for enterprise integrations with real-time, historical and predictive flight data. ](https://www.flightaware.com/commercial/firehose/) - 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[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ** Tags: [News & Announcements](https://blog.flightaware.com/tag/news-announcements) [Aviation Recovery](https://blog.flightaware.com/tag/aviation-recovery) > "After a month of seeing little change in flight activity in Europe, we are excited to report a 16% increase in commercial flight traffic in the last two weeks." > -*Daniel Baker, CEO, FlightAware* ### Commercial Airline Traffic - United States **Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - United States** **Weekly Average | May 17-23**   **Flights per Day:** 2021: 21,185 2020: 7,825 2019: 29,056 Year-over-year change: 2021 vs. 2020: +170.73% 2021 vs. 2019: -27.09%   ### Commercial Airline Traffic - Worldwide **Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - Worldwide** **Weekly Average | May 17-23** **Flights per Day: **2021: 59,097 2020: 23,414 2019: 99,484 Year-over-year change: 2021 vs. 2020: +152.40% 2021 vs. 2019: -40.60%   ### Commercial Airline Traffic - Europe **Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - Europe** **Weekly Average | May 17-23** **Flights per Day: **2021: 8,132 2020: 2,154 2019: 25,709 Year-over-year change: 2021 vs. 2020: +277.61% 2021 vs. 2019: -68.37%   ### Commercial Airline Traffic - China   **Quick Stats: Commercial Airline Traffic - China** **Weekly Average | May 17-23** **Flights per Day: **2021: 13,265 2020: 8,627 2019: 13,877 Year-over-year change: 2021 vs. 2020: +53.76% 2021 vs. 2019: -4.41%   ***Commercial Airline:** Any scheduled passenger airline flights. The FAA refers to these as [Part 121](https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_121/?utm_campaign=Media%20Emails%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ghcI0HI-8XniPW6LhNAdqxd7bsdeo5SePRDnOhINiM0iHb6Ri_ar9JGRD0RIKobySX0H4) and [Part 129](https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_129/?utm_campaign=Media%20Emails%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ghcI0HI-8XniPW6LhNAdqxd7bsdeo5SePRDnOhINiM0iHb6Ri_ar9JGRD0RIKobySX0H4) 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 | May 17-23** **Flights per Day: **2021: 11,892 2020: 6,543 2019: 10,664 Year-over-year change: 2021 vs. 2020: +81.75% 2021 vs. 2019: +11.51%   ***Business Aviation: **Any turbine general aviation flights that are not commercial or cargo airlines. The FAA refers to these as Part [91](https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_91/?utm_campaign=Media%20Emails%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9W7cUtmJUKuSWBM815DJs-qNEqxWCo7KjWyTzRcuo-tLPw1i_pILK2anRg7QjMyr5f18WI) or [135](https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_135/?utm_campaign=Media%20Emails%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9W7cUtmJUKuSWBM815DJs-qNEqxWCo7KjWyTzRcuo-tLPw1i_pILK2anRg7QjMyr5f18WI) traffic.*       **Want more data? 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