Airlines
Airline Bankruptcies and Max Grounding Depress European Traffic Growth
The number of flights across Europe recorded their lowest growth rate last year since 2013.

The coronavirus outbreak threatens to further slow the growth rate of flight movements across Europe, Eurocontrol warned as it observed a decrease of 19 percent on European flights to and from China during the last week of January; while the flow had grown by about 6 percent at the beginning of the month. This represents a net change of 44 fewer daily flights. The number of flights in Europe—defined as the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) area covering the 27 EU countries and 17 neighboring countries—increased by 0.8 percent last year compared with 2018, marking their lowest growth rate since 2013. The decrease progressed gradually across the months in 2019, according to data released by Eurocontrol.


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