The signs of hope are there.
A year and a half after the start of the Covid pandemic which has emptied the planes and airports of their passengers over the various waves, the recovery is taking shape for the airlines.
In mid-August, Eurocontrol, the European organization that manages air traffic, published encouraging data on the activity of the companies.
They have not returned to their 2019 level. But the gap is narrowing.
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Globally, the number of flights in Europe reached 70% of its level in 2019, the base year, in mid-August.
The organization, which had built three more or less optimistic scenarios for the whole of 2021, emphasizes that this summer, the most ambitious scenario is the one that has been verified on the ground.
The reality even slightly exceeded the projections.
So while last May, all companies in Europe had only performed 39% of flights in 2019, this volume gradually increased to reach 70% in August.
If this scenario continued
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