The latest Eurostat data show that as the Covid-19 pandemic comes under control across Europe, and the appetite for travel returns, airlines resume flights after a harsh winter.
Assim, with the rise in the number of vaccinated across Europe and the goal in sight of 70% of European adults inoculated by the end of this month of July, the entity says that airlines are operating more commercial flights in the European Union (UE).
Second to Eurostat, the number of commercial flights in the European Union is decreasing the discrepancy compared to the corresponding months of 2019, the last year before the pandemic.
Although the first months of the year were negative in relation to 2019(until April, the drop in the number of flights was around the 70%), in May the comparison with 2019 improved for the -67%, and in June, para os -54%, already far from breaking 91% registered in April 2020, month in which most countries knew of the first pandemic confinement.
In absolute terms, in June of this year, more than 302 mil voos, mesmo assim, less than half of what was verified in the same month of 2019, que totalizaram 663 mil.
