The daily air traffic at airports Portuguese has been falling in recent days, given pandemic covid-19, and reached an annual break 87% on Wednesday, according to data from Eurocontrol European organization.
Data from the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) indicate that the daily air traffic at the airports of the continent - Lisbon, Porto and Faro - is sharply falling since the middle of this month, when countries began to adopt more stringent measures to contain the spread of the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
If in the past day 16 March registered a decline of 16,6% the daily air traffic compared to the same day 2019, this decrease was increased to 39% the next day and 52,4% três dias depois.
Last Sunday, homologous breaks already were 63% and they continued to emphasize on the Monday (76,8%) and on Tuesday (78,8%), to a peak of 87% on Wednesday.
This latter figure compares with a drop of about 80% the European average.
According to data from Eurocontrol, Also on Wednesday, TAP was one of the companies in Europe with higher year on year fall in the daily air traffic, de 93,3%, only surpassed by companies like Vueling (94%), Ryanair (95%), Brussels Airlines (98%) e easyJet (100%).
When it comes to airports, the Port registered on Wednesday a reduction of daily traffic 90,9%, hair followed Lisbon (88,7%) and the Faro (83,3%).
