OAG has been tracking the effect of the current covid-19 epidemic on aviation capacity since the start of the year.

The following table shows the change in the number of global flights and flights departing from various countries since January 2020 vs the same period in the previous year. The data has been extracted for each week this year, starting on Monday 6th January. Data for January through to July is the cumulative data for the weeks starting in each of those months, while August flights are displayed as the weekly variance with the same week in 2019.

NOTE: With the launch of the OAG Recovery Tracker we have amended the schedule data used for this table and accompanying charts to only include non-stop flights. Previously it included stopping flights. The data shown here has been adjusted accordingly for the full data series. This means that there are some small changes compared to data provided until the week of 20th July 2020, although the trends are very similar.

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