Air passenger traffic set back by pandemic

“The pandemic and its consequences wiped out 21 years of global passenger traffic growth in a matter of months, reducing traffic this year to levels last seen in 1999,” the travel analytics company Cirium said in a report, concluding that passenger air traffic is down 67% worldwide. The US and China claim all 10 of the world’s busiest airports in 2020, while metropolises such as New York, Beijing, Dubai, London and Tokyo failed to make the list due to their disproportionate share of international flights, which remain significantly depressed compared to domestic travel.