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Ryanair operated 9% more flights over Easter compared with 2019, while BA was 28% down and easyJet 16% down


UK aviation recovers to 82% of pre-Covid level


Sector reclaims status as Europe’s busiest but challenges remain. Ian Taylor reports However, traffic beyond Europe


The UK regained its place as Europe’s largest aviation market in April after being overtaken throughout the pandemic, with flight numbers recovering to 82% of 2019’s level over Easter. Eurocontrol, the European air


traffic management body, reported air traffic in Europe’s number-two market Germany remained at 79% of 2019. Spain was the third-largest market,


about 10% smaller than the UK’s but at 92% of 2019’s level. France was 25%


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down on the UK but at 84% of the country’s 2019 level, while Italy, the fifth-largest market, recovered to 91%. Turkey, which temporarily became


Europe’s largest aviation market during the pandemic, remained 22% down on 2019 and air traffic was less than half that to and from the UK. Eurocontrol director general


Eamonn Brennan noted “a strong recovery” by the week of April 25, reporting traffic across Europe was at 88% of the 2019 level.


remained down by a third on 2019 with huge disparities between the North Atlantic, down just 7%, and Asia-Pacific, down 41%. Traffic to the Middle East


remained 25% down, to North Africa 27% down and to South America 17% down. Yet traffic to the Caribbean was on a par with 2019.


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