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More than 20 years of airline passenger traffic growth got erased in 2020, report finds



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A passenger checks flight information on a board in the departures hall at Madrid Barajas airport.Paul Hanna | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE — More than two decades of growth in airline passenger traffic were erased in 2020, a new report found.”The pandemic and its consequences wiped out 21 years of global passenger traffic growth in a matter of months, reducing traffic this year to levels last seen in 1999,” said Cirium, a travel data and analytics company.”In comparison to last year, passenger traffic is estimated to be down 67% in 2020,” the firm said in a press release.Only 2.9 trillion global revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) …

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