At this time of the year, London’s International Airport would have 40 scheduled commercial flights coming and going every day.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, though, that figure is down to as few as five a day, and even then, the planes are “virtually empty,” says airport CEO, Mike Seabrook. “Our passenger traffic is about 10-15 per cent of what it normally is,” Seabrook said in an interview Friday with Global News Radio 980 CFPL’s Devon Peacock.
Like the rest of the travel industry, airports have been reeling from the pandemic as borders stay closed and planes remain grounded.
For London International, it’s a particularly hard pill to swallow. The airport saw record-breaking passenger traffic in 2019, up 27 per cent from a record-breaking