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Half-Term Holidays Drive European Departures Higher
- By Bilal Hafeez and Ben Ford
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We track scheduled flights (what’s planned) and tracked flights (what took off) from a sample of the largest airports across the world.
Global Departure Update
Looking at data up to 5 June 2023:
- Global departures have recovered their strong upwards trend as half-term holidays commenced (Chart 1). Departures sit 5% above 2019 levels.
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We track scheduled flights (what’s planned) and tracked flights (what took off) from a sample of the largest airports across the world.
Global Departure Update
Looking at data up to 5 June 2023:
- Global departures have recovered their strong upwards trend as half-term holidays commenced (Chart 1). Departures sit 5% above 2019 levels.
- Asian (-0.2% WoW) departures have struggled over the past week as gains in Singapore (+2.8% WoW) and Seoul (+1.9% WoW) were offset by losses in Beijing (-2.3% WoW), Tokyo (-2.1% WoW) and Shanghai (-1.0% WoW).
- European airports benefitted from the half-term holiday with departures increasing +2.0% WoW. Frankfurt (+5.8% WoW) and Rome (+5.1% WoW) gained the most while Barcelona (+0.2% WoW) saw the least benefit.
- The US (+3.2% WoW) saw departures increase most over the past week.
Information on long-term movements in flight data is available below.
China
Japan
Hong Kong
South Korea
Singapore
Thailand
US
UK
Italy
Spain
Germany
France
Canada