With more countries and airlines suspending flights in compliance with regulatory directives or operational requirements issued by governments and authorities around the world in order to address the spread of the emerging Corona Virus (COFED-19), the air transport sector continues to record significant rates of decline in air traffic, especially for international flights.
Pictures of the Flight Radar Foundation, a service that tracks flights, showed movement in the airspace of the countries of the world in March compared to last February. The Foundation said that yesterday, March 28, it tracked about 69,000 flights, which is about 20,000 less than the previous day. Noting that it follows about 180 thousand trips during the normal days during the month of March, usually.
According to the data, about 80 international airlines suspended all their flights, including 12 Arab airlines, in addition to dozens of other companies that reduced their operations by rates that reached more than 95% in response to the continuous restrictions on travel.
According to the international provider of airports and airline data, "OAG": The number of scheduled seats in the air transport sector globally decreased by 21 million in only one week, and by 29% starting from March 24 this year compared to the previous week of March 16.