Airlines
Air Traffic Recovery Reaches Full Stop in November
IATA reports November RPK declines nearly matched those of October.

A slowing recovery of passenger demand resulting from surging Covid cases and related travel restrictions since the Northern Hemisphere’s summer travel season reached a full stop in November as airlines saw almost identical revenue passenger kilometer declines from a month earlier, reported the International Air Transport Association Thursday. Falling 70.3 percent from the same month a year earlier, November 2020 RPKs went virtually unchanged from the 70.6 percent year-over-year decline recorded in October. November capacity fell 58.6 percent below the previous year’s levels and load factor fell 23 points to 58 percent—a record low for the month.