Back to flying. After months of lockdown in which air transport has recorded record drops in numbers and percentages, with the easing of restrictions and the reduction of infections (at least in Europe), citizens move again.
This is confirmed by the data released by ENAV for the first fifteen days of the current month, which give some respite to one of the sectors most affected by the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 emergency. Indeed, in July, the company that manages national air traffic managed 33 thousand movements, with a daily average of 2.200 flights. Very high figures compared to those in June, when the movements managed were 26.300 in thirty days (not in fifteen) and the daily average was 886 flights per day, with a decrease of 86 percent compared to the same period of 2019. With the data referring to the first half of July, 20% traffic was recovered, even if the road to recovery remains long and arduous. Compared to last year the decrease remains 66%
Going into detail, as mentioned, the movements managed by ENAV totaled 33. 46% of them are international flights (arrival or departure from a foreign airport), 25,4% domestic flights (arrival and departure from Italian airports), 28,6% overflights (planes crossing Italian airspace without a stop).
"The progressive recovery of traffic in Italian airspace - underlines ENAV - is in line with the growth trend recorded starting from June also in the rest of Europe and, according to Eurocontrol estimates". The prospects for the near future are also good. According to estimates, in the second half of August "more than 50% of the 2019 flown should be recovered".
