Annual Air Transportation Growth and Economic Growth, 1950-2020 (update)

The Covid-19 pandemic represents the fourth time the industry experienced a decline. The most significant disruption experienced by air transportation and a strong divergence between passengers and freight activity, which was not apparent in previous phases. While the number of passenger-km declined by 65.6% between 2019 and 2020 (a loss of 57 million passengers), the number of tons-km only declined by 0.1%.

Air Transportation Growth and Economic Growth, 1950-2020 | The Geography of Transport Systems (transportgeography.org)