COVID-19 Impact on EUROCONTROL Airports - IGA Istanbul

EUROCONTROL Briefing
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The latest in EUROCONTROL’s series of briefings on the impact of COVID-19 on Europe’s top airports focuses on IGA Istanbul Airport.

The briefing (available for download below) provides key facts and graphics and is one of a series covering the impact of the crisis on major European airports.

It includes a specific airport-level traffic composition overview, which shows that traffic is increasing compared to 2020 (+130%) but still has to go up by 23% to get to 2019 levels.

More information on the recent forecasts produced by EUROCONTROL can be found here.

The briefing includes also information on:

  • Total flights lost since 1 March 2020: 218,361 flights;
  • Current flight status: 979 daily flights or -23% vs 2019 (7-day average);
  • Current ranking: 1st;
  • Busiest airline: Turkish Airlines: 808 average daily flights (-18% vs. 2019);
  • Busiest destination country: Turkey with 168 average daily flights (+5% vs. 2019);
  • Busiest destination airport: Antalya with 15 average daily flights (-20% vs. 2019);
  • Mostly international traffic (-33% vs 2019) but with strong domestic traffic (+5%) with traditional scheduled airlines.

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COVID-19 Impact on EUROCONTROL Airports - IGA Istanbul