Air traffic drops to 1998 levels By TPN/Lusa, in Business, News · 22-01-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Air traffic in Portugal last year fell to levels last recorded in 1998, with a total of 345,300 flights, 58 percent less, after the maximum of 816,000 flights recorded in 2019.
“NAV Portugal managed 345,300 flights in 2020, a year negatively marked by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic that were felt particularly strongly in civil aviation”, revealed the airspace manager, according to the provisional data of 2020. Also indicating that these numbers represent “the worst record since 1998”, when 357,000 flights were managed.
Comparing to the last year, the value recorded in 2020 represents a 58 percent drop in air traffic, in line with that observed throughout the network of the European Organisation for th
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