The airline sector saw indications of recovery in passenger traffic in May, as domestic demand and business confidence in key markets rose for the first time since the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
For Africa, traffic fell by 98.7 per cent in April, and the average passenger load factor was 7.7 per cent.
International airline lobby Iata now says daily flights rose 30 per cent between April 21 and May 27, 2020, while demand fell 94.3 per cent year on year, the sharpest decline in the 30 years that Iata has been publishing monthly traffic data.
According to Iata, governments in 75 per cent of the markets it tracks had banned all entry by the first week of April.
Searches for air travel on Google were up 25 per cent at the end of May compared with the low point in April.
