Airlines
IATA Sees ‘Green Shoots’ of Recovery
Airlines registered a 30-percent increase in total flights from April 21 to May 27.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Wednesday issued an upbeat assessment of statistics that show an increase of flight totals of 30 percent from a low point on April 21 to May 27. The uptick followed a 94-percent plunge in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) during April compared with the same month a year earlier, as Covid-19-related travel restrictions virtually shut down domestic and international air travel. The figures mark a rate of decline never seen in the history of IATA’s traffic analyses, which dates back to 1990.