Low-costs in front and generalist companies behind. As a slight wind of recovery blows through the cockpits, the gap is widening between low-cost airlines and the rest. According to the Anker Report, which closely follows European air traffic, Ryanair had recovered on October 9 more than 90% of its 2019 activity on the continent, ahead of WizzAir by one. In comparison, the national companies, known as "legacies", looked poorly. Air France provided nearly 60% of its program in this region, Lufthansa and British Airways were around 50%. Same gaping hole in the filling of planes: in September, Ryanair posted a rate of 81%, easyJet of 78.5% when SAS - one of the few generalists to communicate its data monthly - peaked at 53%. During the third trimester,Air France-KLM was at 64.8%.
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