Travel has significantly declined as people are urged to cancel plans and stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak. This March, a month typically reserved for school-break getaways, saw a historic decline in air traffic.
According to Flightradar24, March 2020 saw 4,294,685 flights. That’s a 21 per cent drop from last year. Commercial flights were 27.7 per cent lower than last year at the same time, too.
Europe has seen the most dramatic decrease in air traffic when looking at the website’s before-and-after photos. The continent has seen a decrease of 2,400 flights between March and April.
This dramatic trend was first seen in China back in January, when the country saw a 75 per cent decline in air traffic during the peak of COVID-19