{"id":154956,"date":"2025-03-25T03:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airline\/five-years-on-chart-shows-covid-19-lockdowns-global-air-travel-impact\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T03:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:40:33","slug":"five-years-on-chart-shows-covid-19-lockdowns-global-air-travel-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=154956","title":{"rendered":"Five Years On: Chart Shows Covid-19 Lockdowns\u2019 Global Air Travel Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This time five years ago, global airline capacity was heading quickly towards its lowest point of the Covid-19 pandemic. This chart shows the dramatic drop in seats available (domestic and international combined) worldwide as travel restrictions came into force.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Did Covid-19 Lockdowns Affect Air Travel?<\/h2>\n

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By early April 2020, 1\/3 people worldwide<\/a> were under some form of movement restriction or lockdown, and the effect of these shutdowns is clearly visible on this graph, showing weekly airline capacity in 2019 (pre-pandemic), 2020 and 2025. Capacity reached its lowest point of the pandemic in week 19<\/span> of 2020 (week commencing 4th May), falling to 30.5m seats, a 72% reduction<\/span> compared to the same week of 2019.<\/p>\n

Total annual capacity in 2020 was 3.2 billion seats<\/span>, compared to 5.8 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n

Following a long road to recovery, capacity in week 19 of 2025 is expected to reach 118.2m seats<\/span>, 8% above the same week in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the trusted source for airline schedules data<\/a>, throughout the pandemic OAG tracked airline capacity each week. You can view data for 2019-2023 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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