Air Traffic Reflects Pandemic’s Impact

Bill Carey April 21, 2020
space-based tracking system
A side-by-side view of flights tracked by the Aireon space-based ADS-B system on Nov. 5, 2019, and April 14, 2020.
Credit: Aireon
There are various ways to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial aviation—airline schedule reductions, canceled aircraft orders, government bailouts, layoffs—and all point to the major upheaval. Among starker indicators is the number of air traffic movements. According to newly...
Bill Carey

Based in Washington, D.C., Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and unmanned aircraft systems. He is the author of 'Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America,' published in 2016.

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