The number of flights to and from the Netherlands since 1 March is 61 percent smaller compared to the same period a year earlier. Due to the corona crisis, the number of passengers lagged 82 percent behind the volume of a year earlier from March to October, EUROCONTROL reports Tuesday. A total of 48 million fewer passengers flew via our country, according to the European organization that supports air traffic control.
The number of flights to and from the Netherlands since 1 March is 61 percent smaller compared to the same period a year earlier. Due to the corona crisis, the number of passengers lagged 82 percent behind the volume of a year earlier from March to October, EUROCONTROL reports Tuesday. A total of 48 million fewer passengers flew via our country, according to the European organization that supports air traffic control.
Compared to the same period in 2019, 297,000 fewer flights were performed. The hardest blows were at Schiphol, where the number of flights in the first week of December was 63 percent smaller than a year earlier.
On March 1, 1,521 flights were carried out throughout the Netherlands, after which a low of 147 was reached on April 12. At the beginning of December, the weekly average was 576 flights. According to EUROCONTROL, KLM operated 57 percent fewer flights in that week and Transavia 80 percent fewer.
The American Delta Airlines is now the third airline, although the company flew 51 percent less this year. EasyJet fell from number two to eighth (-93 percent). Thanks to cargo flights, Qatar Airways was able to double the number of its own activities and is therefore good for fourth place.
