In 2020 the number of airline passengers in Europe will be reduced by 60 percent compared to the previous year, reported on Thursday the international air transport Association (IATA). A sharp reduction in passenger traffic, in quantitative terms, that 705 million people become rigid restrictive measures imposed in the spring of this year.
the Experts also said it is “highly uncertain” as the global aviation industry, whose future is in jeopardy due to a possible second wave of the pandemic in the world in the fall and winter of this year. According to analysts, it can have a much broader economic impact on the aviation industry. Despite the fact that the volume of air traffic in Europe has increased in recent months compared to the April minimum level, the number of flights is more than 50 percent lower than in the same period in 2019, reported the International air transport Association. According to experts of IATA, more than seven million jobs worldwide, employed in aviation, including tourism, are currently “under threat”. IATA, based in Geneva, represents about 290 airlines, which accounted for 82 per cent of global air traffic, said the Guardian.
In France, the UK and Germany the fall in traffic in 2020 is estimated at 65 percent, and in Spain and Italy – at 63 percent. The most severely affected European country will be Norway with the expected fall in passenger traffic of 79%. IATA predicts a global shortage for this sector, one of the most affected by the pandemic, will amount to 419 billion dollars in 2020. The Association expects that the traffic of air travel will return to the levels of 2019 only by 2024.
