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COVID19 Impact on European Air Traffic

EUROCONTROL Comprehensive Assessment

Air Traffic situation: Wednesday 10 June 2020

& mid Week 24 (08-10 June 2020)
(compared with equivalent period in 2019)

Key Highlights
• 7,323 flights yesterday 10 June (+9.2% against Wednesday 3 June)

• Trend is up with a large pick-up expected from 22 June. By mid-July, we expect 12,400
flights, which is expected to rise as more flights are lodged (mainly intra-European).

• Chinese domestic now at 88% of 2019 levels with load factors averaging at 65.2%.
International volumes remain low.

• North American planning a resumption of services on the North Atlantic to

approximately +35% of normal capacity over the coming weeks.

• July schedules for Europe are now clearer for many intra-Schengen operations.

• New quarantine procedures introduced in UK and Ireland is effectively preventing

operations planning for July to those States.

• The EASA/ECDC guidelines have been helpful but the temptation to locally modify them
is not helpful.

• The traffic scenarios we projected on 24 April remain valid for a coordinated opening
and EUROCONTROL is becoming more optimistic.
 1. Summary points on the network situation:

• NM Network flights Wed 10 June: 7,232 flights -79.5% (28,038 fewer flights)
o Increase of +622 movements on the previous Wednesday (3 June).
o More than 7,000 flights for the first time since Sunday 22 March.
o Turkish Airlines was the busiest operator with 310 movements, followed by DHL Express
(255), Widerøe (250), Lufthansa (176) and SAS (143).
o Istanbul (Ataturk, New Istanbul airport and Sabiha Gökçen) was the busiest TMA with
437 movements, followed by CDG (306), Frankfurt (292), Schiphol (263) and Heathrow
(254).

• Mid Week #24 (08-10 June): 6,839 flights (daily avg) -80.4% (83,967 fewer flights)
o Increase of +935 per day on the previous week (01-03 June) (i.e. +16%).
o Turkish Airlines was the busiest operator over these 3 days with an average of 299
movements per day, followed by Widerøe (245), Lufthansa (164), SAS (146), Air France
(138) KLM (127) and Wizz Air (120).
o Over these 3 days, Paris/CDG was the busiest airport with an average of 298 movements
per day followed by Istanbul (286), Frankfurt (277), Amsterdam (254) London Heathrow
(241) and Oslo (221).

EUROCONTROL Network
Daily Variation (Flights) compared with equivalent days in 2019

40 000

35 000 35 270
-5%
-10%
-14%
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30 000
-34%
-44%

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-51%
-56%

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-60%
-66%
-72%

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-81,9%
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7 232
5 000

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% Daily variation Flights 2019 Flights 2020 7-day moving avg of variation vs. 2019
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1 000
2 000
3 000
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5 000
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7 000

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01 Apr 2020 -84,6% 4450
02 Apr 2020 -85,7% 4191
•
Turkey 242 03 Apr 2020 -86,6% 3968
04 Apr 2020 -87,2% 3823
France 206 05 Apr 2020 -87,6% 3726
06 Apr 2020 -87,7% 3667
Germany 193 07 Apr 2020 -87,9% 3621
Italy 124 08 Apr 2020 -88,1% 3573
09 Apr 2020 -88,2% 3541
Norway 63 10 Apr 2020 -88,8% 3390
11 Apr 2020 -89,0% 3341
Denmark 42 12 Apr 2020 -89,3% 3259
Switzerland 32 13 Apr 2020 -89,8% 3114
14 Apr 2020 -89,9% 3091
Netherlands 29 15 Apr 2020 -89,9% 3085
16 Apr 2020 -89,8% 3127
Portugal 25 17 Apr 2020 -89,2% 3255
18 Apr 2020 -89,1% 3266
Greece 21 19 Apr 2020 -88,9% 3317
Hungary 21 20 Apr 2020 -88,3% 3484
21 Apr 2020 -88,2% 3528
Austria 18 22 Apr 2020 -88,0% 3579
23 Apr 2020 -87,9% 3628
Spain 17 24 Apr 2020 -87,8% 3675
Poland 15 25 Apr 2020 -87,8% 3700
26 Apr 2020 -87,8% 3734
Canarias 14 27 Apr 2020 -87,7% 3779
28 Apr 2020 -87,6% 3814
moving average for both indicators).

Morocco 14 29 Apr 2020 -87,4% 3840

30 Apr 2020 -87,4% 3841
Bulgaria 11 01 May 2020 -87,9% 3716
Latvia 10 02 May 2020 -87,9% 3714
03 May 2020 -87,9% 3741

7-day moving avg of 2020 flights

Sweden 10 04 May 2020 -87,8% 3774
05 May 2020 -87,8% 3806
Finland 9 06 May 2020 -87,8% 3840
Lithuania 8 07 May 2020 -87,5% 3911
08 May 2020 -87,0% 4073
Luxembourg 7 09 May 2020 -86,9% 4134
10 May 2020 -86,8% 4154
Belgium 7 11 May 2020 -86,8% 4178
12 May 2020 -86,5% 4249
Cyprus 6 13 May 2020 -86,4% 4304
Romania 6 14 May 2020 -86,3% 4358
15 May 2020 -85,8% 4479

Mon, Tue, Wed of Week 24 vs. Week 23

Israel 5 16 May 2020 -85,7% 4532
at Network Manager Area level

17 May 2020 -85,5% 4572

States in EUROCONTROL Network

Serbia & Montenegro 4

Average Daily Variation (IFR Dep/Arr Flights)

18 May 2020 -85,3% 4653
Malta 3 19 May 2020 -85,1% 4699
20 May 2020 -84,8% 4799
Georgia 3 21 May 2020 -85,1% 4724
Traffic variation between 2020 and 2019

22 May 2020 -85,4% 4675

Estonia 2 23 May 2020 -85,4% 4694
24 May 2020 -85,3% 4750
Armenia 1
7-day moving avg variation vs. 2019

25 May 2020 -85,3% 4751

Albania 1 26 May 2020 -85,3% 4788
27 May 2020 -85,4% 4808
Ireland 1 28 May 2020 -84,8% 4962
29 May 2020 -84,3% 5092
Croatia 1 30 May 2020 -84,2% 5127
Moldova 1 31 May 2020 -84,5% 5112
01 Jun 2020 -84,5% 5113
North Macedonia 0 02 Jun 2020 -84,4% 5174
03 Jun 2020 -84,2% 5255
Bosnia-Herzegovina -1 04 Jun 2020 -84,1% 5381
05 Jun 2020 -83,9% 5495
Czech Republic -3 06 Jun 2020 -83,6% 5613
April both in terms of variation against 2019 and in absolute number of flights (using 7-day
When zooming in, a constant but slight recovery is clearly visible at network level since mid-

Slovakia -5 07 Jun 2020 -83,0% 5787

08 Jun 2020 -82,4% 6001
Slovenia -6 09 Jun 2020 -82,1% 6099
10 Jun 2020 -81,9% 6188
Ukraine -6
United Kingdom -8
-92%
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-82%
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-78%
-76%
 Variation of number of avg dep/arr flights per day Average number of dep/arr flights per day

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10
20
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120
140

55
Turkey - Turkey Norway - Norway

126

87
Turkey - Turkey

22
Spain Canarias - Spain Canarias

71
Germany - Germany

12
Norway - Norway

63
Spain Canarias - Spain Canarias

6
Denmark - Denmark Italy - Italy
France - France

6
Greece - Greece
Spain Continental - Spain Continental

4
40 39 38 36
Spain Canarias - Spain Continental Greece - Greece
United Kingdom - United States

4
Spain Continental - France

25 22
Sweden - Sweden

3
Finland - Sweden United Kingdom - United Kingdom
Germany - Switzerland

3
France - France
Germany - United Kingdom

Spain (+22) and Norway (+12).

3
Germany - Germany Denmark - Denmark
Cyprus - Greece

3
Netherlands - France
15 14 13 12 11 11

United Kingdom - Ireland

3
United Kingdom - Netherlands Finland - Sweden

2
France - Italy France - Italy
Germany - Austria

2
Germany - Austria
Spain Canarias - Spain Continental
10 10 10 10 9

2
Israel - Turkey Germany - Netherlands
9

Netherlands - France

2
Netherlands - Denmark
9
Wednesday 10 June 2020

United Kingdom - Netherlands

Top 40 Country-pairs

2
8

Netherlands - Portugal Germany - Spain Continental

Top Airport-pairs variation

8

Israel - Turkey

2
Netherlands - Switzerland
8

Spain Continental - France

2
7

Norway - Sweden Algeria - France

(Average number of dep/arr flights per day)

(Number of average dep/arr flights per day)

7

Estonia - Finland

2
United Kingdom - Switzerland

between Wednesday 3 June and Wednesday 10 June

7

Germany - France

2
United Kingdom - United States
7

Poland - Poland
6

1
Turkey - Iran Israel - Israel
6

Netherlands - Switzerland

1
United Kingdom - Portugal
6

Norway - Sweden
6

0
Armenia - Russian Federation United Kingdom - United Arab…
5

Netherlands - Italy

0
Belgium - Spain Continental
4

Belgium - Spain Continental

0
4

Belgium - United Kingdom

followed by Domestic flights within Turkey, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Greece.

Denmark - France
4

Denmark - Norway

0
Denmark - France
4

Finland - Denmark

0
4

Denmark - Norway Finland - Finland

Between Wednesday 3 and 10 June, the flows which increased the most were the domestic
domestic flow within Norway was clearly the highest with 126 dep/arr flights a day on average,

flights within Turkey (+55 dep/arr flights per day on average), followed by the flows between
When considering departing and arriving flights per country-pairs on Wednesday 10 June, the
2. Return to Operations

• Latest EUROCONTROL European Network Operations (NOP) 2020 Recovery Plan:

https://www.eurocontrol.int/news/eurocontrol-nm-publishes-network-recovery-plan
[NOP 2020 Recovery Plan covers a rolling four-week period and is updated by the EUROCONTROL
Network Manager on a weekly basis. It consolidates data from around 350 airlines, 68 area
control centres (ACCs), 55 airports and 43 State.]
o As per 5 June 2020 publication: The network traffic is expected to reach around 9,000
flights during the second half of June 2020, getting close to 10,400 flights on some days
in early July.
o Further indications since the last publication: Week of 6 July – 12 July could see up to
12,400 flights

Average Daily Traffic

EUROCONTROL European Network Operations (NOP) 2020 Recovery Plan, 5 June 2020

• European Airline Examples

o Wᴉzz Air growth continued with movements up +50% week-on-week, connections being
re-established, examples include Gatwick, Barcelona and Ben Gurion.
o The growth in Turkish Airlines traffic is largely domestic, a full relaunch of International
traffic is being held back by the combination of local and international travel
restrictions.
o The gradual increase in Lufthansa’s movements (week-on-week from 165 to 176) is a
quiet restoring of routes or increase in frequency Germany and other NM_AREA states
since Monday 01 June.
• Return to Operations – North America
(sourced via US FAA and OAG)
o The number of departure seats totalled 5.57 million (w/c May 25), a modest rise of 1.4%
compared with the previous seven days. However, the market remains 77% smaller
than the same week a year ago. The US accounted for 5.35 million seats last week, while
there were 214,910 departure seats in Canada.
o The upward trend appears set to continue over the coming weeks as airlines gradually
begin to restore routes and frequencies. The latest schedules data shows that capacity
from and within North America during June 2020 is expected to be about 3.28 million
departure seats, a rise of 32% compared with May.

o North American Operations – Return to Operations Examples:

Southwest Airlines
o Rremains the largest carrier in North America by capacity, offering 1.55 million seats
last week. This is equivalent to 39% of its weekly capacity a year ago.

United Airlines
o As of July 06, United will add flights to London, Munich, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin,
Tel Aviv and Zurich.
o 14 additional daily flights will be added in August to those same destinations. The rest
of their international European schedule has been pushed for an October 24 decision.

Delta Airlines
o June schedule will include flights to Amsterdam, London and Tel Aviv
o July schedule will add 8 additional daily flights
o August schedule will add approximately 30 daily flights
o Delta will double its domestic capacity in July from May, after adding back 100 flights
in June.

American Airlines
o On June 4 resumed service to Amsterdam, Frankfurt Paris and London.
o American Airlines will operate 55% of its original domestic schedule in July, citing
consistent improvement in summer leisure travel demand.

• Return to Operations - Focus on China

o For the three weeks beginning May 11, scheduled domestic capacity was 80% as much
as a year earlier or just below, compared with an average of 63% for most of March and
April. This has since increased to 88% and the schedules for next week show 96% of last
year’s equivalent domestic capacity is planned
o Domestic passenger load factors have been weak. For May, the average was 65.2% with
only a faint upward trend, according to Chinese data firm Variflight. This is not a result
of regulation: there is no limit in China on passenger load factors or spacing on domestic
flights to minimize infection, though international flights cannot be more than 75% full.

Source: https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/daily-memo-chinese-
domestic-capacity-near-90-2019-level
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300
350
Istanbul 317 (5%)
Paris Ch De Gaulle 306 (4%)

3. Airports:
Frankfurt Main 292 (4%)
Amsterdam/Schiphol 263 (4%)
London/Heathrow 254 (4%)

CDG (+57).
Oslo/Gardermoen 233 (3%)
Koeln-Bonn 194 (3%)
Athinai/Eleftherios… 188 (3%)
Bergen/Flesland 188 (3%)
Leipzig/Halle 187 (3%)
Stavanger/Sola 134 (2%)
Muenchen 130 (2%)
Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen 120 (2%)
Milano Malpensa 118 (2%)
East Midlands 118 (2%)
Roma/Fiumicino 109 (2%)
Zurich 104 (1%)
Stockholm-Arlanda 104 (1%)
Helsinki-Vantaa 99 (1%)
Brussels National 98 (1%)
Wien Schwechat 97 (1%)
Adolfo Suarez Madrid-… 96 (1%)
Paris Le Bourget 96 (1%)

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Kobenhavn/Kastrup 95 (1%)
Chinese Traffic Recovery

Tromso/Langnes 94 (1%)
Sofia 89 (1%)

Top 40 Airports (Dep/Arr flights + share)

London/Stansted 87 (1%)
Hamburg 84 (1%)
Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion 78 (1%)
Trondheim/Vaernes 78 (1%)
Marseille Provence 76 (1%)
Ankara-Esenboga 76 (1%)
Barcelona/El Prat 74 (1%)
Source: EUROCONTROL NM using ADS-B data supplied by Aireon

Schoenefeld-Berlin 74 (1%)
Gran Canaria 73 (1%)
Dublin 72 (1%)
Budapest Liszt Ferenc… 72 (1%)
Stuttgart 69 (1%)
London/Luton 65 (1%)
Paris/CDG (306), Frankfurt (292), Amsterdam (263), London/Heathrow (254) and Oslo (233).

Luxembourg 64 (1%)

The largest variation of average daily flights between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of week
23 and week 24 was for Istanbul with 105 additional flight on average per day, followed by Paris
On Wednesday 10 June, Istanbul was the busiest airport with 317 movements, followed by
 Averge number of flight per day

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15
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25
30
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80
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120

28
Oslo/Gardermoen - Trondheim/Vaernes
Istanbul (Grand + Ataturk) 105

24
Bergen/Flesland - Stavanger/Sola

23
Oslo/Gardermoen - Stavanger/Sola Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle 57

22
Las Palmas - Tenerife Norte
Oslo/Gardermoen 31

21
Bergen/Flesland - Oslo/Gardermoen
Copenhagen/Kastrup 25

17
Marseille/Provence - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle
Amsterdam 21

14
Las Palmas - Arrecife Lanzarote

13
Oslo/Gardermoen - Tromso/Langnes

a day on average.
Athens 19
Copenhagen/Kastrup - Aalborg
Stockholm/Arlanda 16
Athens - Iraklion/Nikos/Kazantzakis
Munich 15
London/Heathrow - New York
Vienna

12 12 12 12
Toulouse/Blagnac - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle 13
Fuerteventura - Las Palmas Zurich 13
Larnaca - Athens
Rome/Fiumicino 11

11 11 11
Bodo - Oslo/Gardermoen
Milan/Malpensa 10
Nice - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle
Athens - Makedonia Frankfurt 10
La Palma - Tenerife Norte London/Heathrow 9
Catania Fontanarossa - Rome/Fiumicino
Palma De Mallorca 8
Milan/Malpensa - Rome/Fiumicino
Ibiza - Palma De Mallorca Dusseldorf 6

10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Helsinki-Vantaa - Stockholm/Arlanda Paris/Orly 6

9
Izmir-Adnan-Menderes - Istanbul/Sabiha…

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Top 40 Airport-pairs
Nice 5

9
Amsterdam - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle
Barcelona 4

9
Frankfurt - Hamburg
Mon, Tue, Wed of Week 24 vs. Week 23

9
Frankfurt - London/Heathrow Geneva 4
Average Daily Variation (IFR Dep/Arr Flights)
Airports in EUROCONTROL Network

8
Hamburg - Munich Manchester 4

(Average number of dep/arr flights per day)

8
Trabzon - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen Madrid/Barajas 3

8
Frankfurt - Berlin-Tegel
Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion 3

8
Cagliari Elmas - Rome/Fiumicino

8
Mugla-Dalaman - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen Lisbon 2

8
Ankara-Esenboga - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen London/Gatwick 2

8
Adana-Sakirpasa - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen
Helsinki-Vantaa 2

8
Palermo Punta Raisi - Rome/Fiumicino
London/Stansted 2

8
Izmir-Adnan-Menderes - Istanbul Grand

8
London/Heathrow - Chicago O Hare Intl Dublin 0

8
Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion - Istanbul Grand Liege/Liege -4

8
Frankfurt - Munich
Brussels -7
Athens - Santorini 8
Warsaw/Okecie
-12
8
Gotenborg/Landvetter - Stockholm/Arlanda
between Norwegian airports which accounts for more than 23 dep/arr flights a day on average

Marseille/Paris CDG was 6th with 17. All other top 40 airport pairs are around 8-10 dep/arr flights
This analysis can be extended to airport pairs on Wednesday 10 June. Apart from the flows

(reaching 28 between Oslo and Trondheim), Las Palmas/Tenerife was 4th with 22,
 Averge number of flight per day Variation of number of avg dep/arr flights per day

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15
20
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28
Oslo/Gardermoen - Trondheim/Vaernes

55
Turkey - Turkey
•

24
Bergen/Flesland - Stavanger/Sola

22
Spain Canarias - Spain Canarias

23
Oslo/Gardermoen - Stavanger/Sola

22
Las Palmas - Tenerife Norte

12
Norway - Norway

21
Bergen/Flesland - Oslo/Gardermoen

6
Denmark - Denmark

17
Marseille/Provence - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle

14
Las Palmas - Arrecife Lanzarote

6
Greece - Greece

13
Oslo/Gardermoen - Tromso/Langnes

4
Copenhagen/Kastrup - Aalborg Spain Canarias - Spain Continental

a day on average.
Athens - Iraklion/Nikos/Kazantzakis

4
Spain Continental - France
London/Heathrow - New York

3
Finland - Sweden

12 12 12 12
Toulouse/Blagnac - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle
Fuerteventura - Las Palmas

3
France - France
Larnaca - Athens

3
Germany - Germany

11 11 11
Bodo - Oslo/Gardermoen
Spain (+22) and Norway (+12).

Nice - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle

3
Netherlands - France
Athens - Makedonia

3
La Palma - Tenerife Norte United Kingdom - Netherlands
Catania Fontanarossa - Rome/Fiumicino
2
France - Italy
Milan/Malpensa - Rome/Fiumicino
2

Ibiza - Palma De Mallorca Germany - Austria

10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Helsinki-Vantaa - Stockholm/Arlanda
2

Israel - Turkey

9
Izmir-Adnan-Menderes - Istanbul/Sabiha…

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Top 40 Airport-pairs
2

9
Amsterdam - Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle Netherlands - Denmark

9
Frankfurt - Hamburg
2

Netherlands - Portugal

9
Top Airport-pairs variation

Frankfurt - London/Heathrow
2

Netherlands - Switzerland

8
Hamburg - Munich

(Average number of dep/arr flights per day)

8
Trabzon - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen
2

Norway - Sweden
(Number of average dep/arr flights per day)

8
Frankfurt - Berlin-Tegel
2

United Kingdom - Switzerland

8
Cagliari Elmas - Rome/Fiumicino
between Wednesday 3 June and Wednesday 10 June

8
Mugla-Dalaman - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen
2

United Kingdom - United States

8
Ankara-Esenboga - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen
1

Turkey - Iran

8
Adana-Sakirpasa - Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen

8
1

Palermo Punta Raisi - Rome/Fiumicino United Kingdom - Portugal

8
Izmir-Adnan-Menderes - Istanbul Grand
0

Armenia - Russian Federation

8
London/Heathrow - Chicago O Hare Intl

8
0

Tel Aviv/Ben Gurion - Istanbul Grand Belgium - Spain Continental

8
Frankfurt - Munich
0

Belgium - United Kingdom

8
Athens - Santorini

8
0

Gotenborg/Landvetter - Stockholm/Arlanda Denmark - France

Marseille/Paris CDG was 6th with 17. All other top 40 airport pairs are around 8-10 dep/arr flights
between Norwegian airports which accounts for more than 23 dep/arr flights a day on average
Between Wednesday 3 and 10 June, the flows which increased the most were the domestic

This analysis can be extended to airport pairs on Wednesday 10 June. Apart from the flows
flights within Turkey (+55 dep/arr flights per day on average), followed by the flows between

(reaching 28 between Oslo and Trondheim), Las Palmas/Tenerife was 4th with 22,
0

Denmark - Norway
 4. Airlines

• For the largest Air Operator Groups, the reductions on Wednesday 10 June were: easyJet
-99.0%, Ryanair Group -98.0%, IAG Airlines -94.5%, Lufthansa Group -91.9% and Air-France-KLM
-87.5%.
• On Wednesday 10 June, Austrian Airlines had no flights at all, TUI jet and Brussels only 2, easyJet
was -99%, Ryanair -98%, TAP -98%, Iberia -97%, British Airways -92%, Lufthansa -89%, Air France
-88%, SAS -86%, KLM -82%, Turkish airlines -78% and Widerøe -39%.
• Turkish Airlines was the busiest airline with 310 movements, followed by DHL Express (255),
Widerøe (250), Lufthansa (176), SAS (143), Bristow Norway (139), Air France (139) and KLM
(132).
Air Operator Group | Daily Network Traffic
10/06/2020 compared to the same operational day last year

-80,0%
-82,0% 284 18 145 294 52
-84,0%
-86,0%
-88,0%
-90,0% -87,5%
-92,0%
-94,0% -91,9%
-96,0% -94,5%
-98,0%
-100,0% -98,0%
-99,0%
AIR FRANCE-KLM EASYJET GROUP IAG AIRLINES LUFTHANSA GROUP RYANAIR GROUP

Top 40 Aircraft Operators (Flights + share)

Wednesday 10 June 2020
310 (4%)

350
255 (4%)
250 (3%)

300
176 (2%)

250
143 (2%)
139 (2%)
139 (2%)
132 (2%)
117 (2%)

200
104 (1%)
96 (1%)
92 (1%)
85 (1%)
84 (1%)
82 (1%)
79 (1%)

150
73 (1%)
68 (1%)
63 (1%)
62 (1%)
53 (1%)
52 (1%)
51 (1%)
48 (1%)
48 (1%)
48 (1%)
44 (1%)
43 (1%)
42 (1%)
42 (1%)
39 (1%)
37 (1%)
37 (1%)
37 (1%)
36 (0%)
34 (0%)
34 (0%)
34 (0%)
32 (0%)
30 (0%)
100

50

0
Air Contractors…
Scandinavian Airlines…

Chc Helikopter Service…

Commandement…
British Airways

Lot-Polish Airlines

Jetfly Aviation Sa

Air Baltic Corporat.

Binter Canarias
Bristow Norway As

Tnt International

Pegasus Hava Tasi.

Sunexpress Airlines
Deutsche Lufthansa

Wizz Air
Klm Royal Dutch Airl

Swift Air S.A.

Loganair

Canarias Airlines
Enac
Turkish Airlines
Dhl Express

Qatar Airways Comp.

Sky Express S.A.

Eurowings Ag
United Parcel Svc

Atlantic Airlines
Ryanair

Air Hamburg
Wideroe

Air France

Alitalia
Federal Express Corp

Olympic

Finnair O/Y

Norwegian Air Shuttle

Emirates
Star Air

Netjets

Danish Intl Heli

• The largest variation of average daily flights between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of week
23 and week 24 was for Turkish airlines with 115 additional flight on average per day followed
by Pegasus (+86).
 Aircraft operators in EUROCONTROL Network
Average Daily Variation (IFR Flights)
Mon, Tue, Wed of Week 24 vs. Week 23
140
115
120
100 86

80
60
39

36

33

29
40

15

15

12

11
20

0
0

Tap/Air Portugal -1

Aer Lingus Teoranta -1

Finnair O/Y -1
-20

Lot-Polish Airlines -5

El Al-Israel Airl. -5
British Airways
Pegasus Hava Tasi.

Wizz Air

Deutsche Lufthansa

Air Nostrum

Jersey European T/A Flybe

Klm Royal Dutch Airl

Brussels Airlines
Eurowings Ag

Air Europa

Austrian Airlines
Turkish Airlines

Ryanair

Easyjet

Vueling Airlines Sa

Iberia
Air France

Scandinavian Airlines System

Wideroe

Alitalia
Swiss International

Tui Jet

Norwegian Air Shuttle

5. ECAC – Worldwide Regions Traffic:

• In March, all bi-directional traffic flows between ECAC and other regions in the world decreased
with various dynamics and amplitude. The flow with Asia/Pacific is now the largest share of
traffic to/from ECAC at 6%, followed by North Atlantic and Middle East after having reached a
minimum early April.

Share of Europe flights

with other Regions

%2%2%
00%
2%
5%
5% 1%4%
1%
0%
3%
5% ECAC
6% 4% AsiaPacific
2% 'North-Atlantic'
'Middle-East'
'North-Africa'
'Mid-Atlantic'
'South-Atlantic'
80%
'Southern Africa'
78% 'Other Europe'
 • Over the first 8 days of June, the intra-ECAC flows represented 4415 flights on average per day.
Yesterday, on 8 June, the largest increase compared to the same day of the previous week was
also the intra ECAC flow with 1432 additional flights.

Period 1-8 June 2020 08/06/2020 compared with 01/06/2020

Total number of Avg daily number Total number Variation Variation
ECAC<->
flights of flights of flights (Delta) (%)
ECAC 35 322 4 415 5176 1432 38,2%
AsiaPacific 2 934 367 329 -8 -2,4%
'North-Atlantic' 2 261 283 253 9 3,7%
'Middle-East' 2 108 264 243 7 3,0%
'North-Africa' 681 85 93 30 47,6%
'Mid-Atlantic' 185 23 18 2 12,5%
'South-Atlantic' 222 28 34 0 0,0%
'Southern Africa' 706 88 79 -17 -17,7%
'Other Europe' 915 114 90 -8 -8,2%

6. Market Segments (Up to 8 June 2020)

• This time last year, all-cargo flights accounted for about 2% of total Departure / Arrival flights,
whereas now, it accounted for 12% on 8 June 2020. The share of scheduled traffic, which
accounted for 84% reduced to 38% only.

Market Segments in EUROCONTROL Network

Daily Traffic and share (IFR Dep/Arr Flights)

966
13%
1 045
711
3 811 2%3%
900 11% 2 814
12% 38%

27 982
84%

2 725
37%

Scheduled Charter and All Cargo Other

business aviation

• During the crisis, all-cargo flights remained stable at the 2019 level with a variation around the
Easter period (both 2019 and 2020) while scheduled and low-cost traffic reduced by 88%
(respectively 96%) during the crisis.
 Market segments in EUROCONTROL Network
(compared with equivalent days in 2019)
Daily Variation (Flights)
20%
0% 4%

-20%
-40%
-60%
-80%
-88%
-100% -96%
-120%

02 Jun 2020
04 Jun 2020
06 Jun 2020
08 Jun 2020
01 Apr 2020
03 Apr 2020
05 Apr 2020
07 Apr 2020
09 Apr 2020
11 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020
29 Apr 2020
01 May 2020
03 May 2020
05 May 2020
07 May 2020
09 May 2020
11 May 2020
13 May 2020
15 May 2020
17 May 2020
19 May 2020
21 May 2020
23 May 2020
25 May 2020
27 May 2020
29 May 2020
31 May 2020
04 Mar 2020
06 Mar 2020
08 Mar 2020
10 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020
18 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020
22 Mar 2020
24 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020

All Cargo (7-day avg) Low Cost (7-day avg) Traditional (7-day avg)

• As shown below, the traffic per market segment is steadily increasing since week 16 and all
cargo flights, despite increasing in absolute terms, see their share slightly reducing as they
increased less than other market segment flights.

Weekly number of flights Weekly share of number of flights

per market segment per market segment
6 000 100%
12% 13% 12% 14% 15% 17% 18% 15%
90%
5 000 855
904 80%
679 783 70% 39% 39%
4 000 38% 37% 36% 36% 35% 40%
581
490 444 2257 60%
1814
3 000 378 1645 1692 50%
1542
1393 1441 40%
1272 27% 27% 28% 29%
2 000 30% 30% 29% 30%
1528 1638 29%
984 1188 1349 1375
873 1032 20%
1 000
10% 23% 23% 22% 20% 19% 18% 17%
747 836 801 828 861 846 882 868 15%
- 0%
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Average of All-Cargo Average of BizAv&Charter Average of All-Cargo Average of BizAv&Charter

Average of Sched Average of Other Average of Sched Average of Other

To further assist you in your analysis, EUROCONTROL provides the following additional information
on a daily basis (daily updates at approximately 12:00 CET):

1. EUROCONTROL Daily Traffic Variation dashboard:

www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation (or via the COVID-19 button
on the top of our homepage www.eurocontrol.int)
• This dashboard will provide traffic for Day+1 for all European States; for the
largest airports; for each Area Control Centre (ACC); and for the largest airline
operators.

2. COVID Related-NOTAMS With Network Impact (i.e. summary of airspace restrictions):

https://www.public.nm.eurocontrol.int/PUBPORTAL/gateway/spec/index.html
• The public Network Operations Portal (NOP) under “Latest News” will be
updated daily with a summary table of the most significant COVID-19 NOTAMs
applicable at 12.00 UTC.