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May 13, 2021 · That’s an average of 469 planes every day. We found 2,865 unique connections between Canadian airports during the pandemic. According to data released by airports, between April 1, 2020, and ...
May 4, 2020 · The Air Canada Rouge route map prior to the coronavirus pandemic. (Image courtesy of Rouge) Air Canada does not plan to replace the 767s. The retirements are part of an effort to shrink the carrier in the face of what Rovinescu said will be an at least three-year recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to aviation. Air transportation is all about connecting the world through the movement of people and goods. At the start of the pandemic, the movement of people by air was essentially stopped by public health measures and travel restrictions implemented around the world to combat the spre...
Statistics Canada’s Civil Aviation Surveys collect data on operating and financial statistics from Canadian air carriers. Data from the beginning of 2018 through the end of 2021 were used for this analysis. The Monthly Civil Aviation Surveyis a census of Canadian Level I air carriers. Level I air carriers are the largest Canadian airlines: Air Cana...
Unprecedented declines and slow improvements in operating statistics
With the introduction of travel restrictions (such as closing the border to foreigners), stay-at-home advisories and restrictions on gatherings and activities in March 2020, passenger air travel was affected to an unprecedented extent. In April 2020, there was a 97% year-over-year decline in the number of passengers carried by Canadian Level I air carriers. Previously the largest year-over-year declines recorded were 26% following both the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US and d...
International flights hit harder than domestic
Statistics Canada categorizes aviation data using three sectors – domestic (within Canada), transborder (between Canada and the United States) and other international (between Canada and other countries, except the United States). Using data from the quarterly survey, in 2019, Level I and II carriers transported 47.8 million passengers (51.5%) in the domestic sector, 19.8 million (21.3%) in the transborder sector, and 25.3 million (27.2%) in the other international sector. During the pandemic...
Cargo increases in importance
While passenger air transportation experienced steep declines during the pandemic, cargo transportation became a more important component. Before the pandemic, around half of all air cargo was carried in the cargo holds on passenger flights (IATA, 2020). When these flights were grounded by the pandemic, air cargo faced a capacity crunch as supply was down but demand was up due to the need to transport personal protective equipment and an increase in e-commerce.Note Cargo carriers increased fl...
The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest shock to the aviation industry in history. This article examined its impact on Canadian airlines and the road to recovery up to December 2021. The biggest impact was on passenger airlines, as passenger traffic dropped to an unprecedented extent and has been sluggish to recover. High fixed costs amid falling reve...
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Aug 11, 2022 · This is the third in a series of articles that examines the impact of COVID-19 on aviation in Canada and looks for signs of recovery up to the end of 2021. The first article examined the impact on Canada’s large and medium air carriers and found that passenger airlines bore the brunt of this impact, while the increased demand for air cargo ...
Research and data: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser. The data on the coronavirus pandemic is updated daily. Last update: a month ago.
- Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Charlie Giattino, Esteban Ortiz-...
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Nov 30, 2021 · Science table calls for health measures as Ontario hits 10,000 deaths linked to COVID-19. Unvaccinated travellers over age 12 no longer allowed to board planes or trains in Canada. China...
Dec 29, 2021 · Ontario on Wednesday saw a single-day high of 10,436 new cases of COVID-19, as well as three additional deaths. Ontario halts visits, social trips for long-term care residents amid Omicron spread ...
