Morocco-Europe Air Travel Plummets 70% as Regional Traffic Shifts

According to Eurocontrol, traffic between Europe and Morocco has fallen by 70% over the past two weeks, representing a 32% drop recorded between the old continent and North Africa, reports Air Journal. There is also a smaller decline to and from Europe outside the ECAC (-4%), within it (-2%) or to the Middle East and Asia (each -1%). In contrast, transatlantic traffic increased by 21% compared to the previous 15 days. It far outpaces the +10% recorded for South America, +8% for the Caribbean or +2% for Central and Southern Africa.

With an average of 984 flights per day (-24% compared to 2019), Amsterdam-Schiphol was the busiest European airport between December 4 and 10 last, ahead of Paris-CDG in France (944 flights, -25%), Frankfurt in Germany (927 flights, -28%), Istanbul in Turkey (890 flights, -19%) and London-Heathrow (810 flights, -37%). The latter outpaces the airports of Madrid, Munich, Barcelona, Oslo and Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen.