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School Holidays to Reverse Falling EU Flight Departures
- By Bilal Hafeez and Ben Ford
- 2 min read
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 26 June 2023:
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- Global departures continue to rise, averaging 132k a day (Chart 1). That is a 5k increase from last month and 5.4% 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 17 July 2023:
- Global departures continue to rise, averaging 132k a day (Chart 1). That is a 5k increase from last month and 5.4% above 2019 levels.
- Departures in Asia continued to grind higher, making it the best-performing region (including and excluding China) since the start of last year. However, China remains a caveat; most of China’s departures have remained domestic, though international flights continue to increase.
- Turning to the US, Atlanta (+8.1% WoW) and Chicago (+6.9% WoW) lifted US airport departures +4.8% over the past week. However, this reflects departures returning to normal following poor weather conditions.
- European departures (-1.4% WoW) slipped over the past week, though this is likely to reverse as school holidays start soon.
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