Air traffic in Europe is expected to increase to about 50 percent of last year’s levels by early August, according to projections by Eurocontrol.
The newest version of the European Network Operations Plan ─ 2020 Recovery Plan said that traffic is likely to reach up to 16,500 flights a day in July as restrictions that were implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19 begin to lapse. Flights may increase to as many as 18,000 a day in August, the plan said.
Traffic counts in recent months have been consistent with projections in earlier versions of the network operations plans, Eurocontrol said.
Eurocontrol Director General Eamonn Brennan said Tuesday that several European operators have begun adding “a lot” of flights. More than 9,200 flights were completed Monday, Brennan said in a Tweet. That number is 75 percent fewer than was recorded in 2019, he said.
“However,” he added, the recovery is not at all uniform, with some countries still over 90 percent do…
