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Cirium records modest increase in global pax flights

According to new analysis from Cirium, there has been an uptick in global passenger flights over the last week – as Asia-Pacific countries such as China begin to relax travel restrictions.

Cirium analysis also shows that 130 passenger jets were added to the active global fleet since yesterday’s update. This takes the overall proportion of stored aircraft down to approximately 62% of the global fleet, or 16,300 aircraft.

Above: A close up of a map Description automatically generated.
Courtesy Cirium / Source: Cirium Core, Tracked Utilisation, 30th April 2020

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For more information visit Cirium’s daily tracker at: www.cirium.com/thoughtcloud/coronavirus-monitoring-passenger-jet-activity-through-the-hibernation-phase/
 
These utilisation percentage changes are from a bottom point recorded in the past seven days. Overall utilisation year-on-year (the blue line on the chart above) has not changed.

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