As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate and cause damage to global aviation, VariFlight has compiled its latest report on the statuses of the industry in hard-hit countries and regions, with data last updated on Mar 30, 2020.

Trends of Aviation Operation amid Coronavirus Outbreak

The global COVID-19 total passed 700,000 cases on March 30, just 1 day after passing the 600,000-case mark, fueled by steep rises in Europe and the U.S.

Combining civil aviation trends in China with epidemic and flight completion in hard-hit countries and regions, VariFlight made a forecast on the stages that their civil aviation industry will experience. It's obviously that civil aviation in the US, UK and EU countries has regressed to levels about 10-15 years before, which will get worse and may take longer to recover. Due to effective control of the epidemic, flight completion in South Korean has been slightly improved. According to CAAC, due to the rising number of imported cases of the novel coronavirus, domestic airlines are required to reduce their international routes to only one per country and cap the number of flights to no more than one flight per week from March 29, while foreign carriers allowed to maintain only one air route to China and operate no more than one flight a week.

Civil aviation in China has been severely hit by COVID-19 outbreak, which dropped to the level of 2001 in terms of aircraft movements and now has recovered to the level of 2009 as the epidemic is gradually brought under control.

Cases Growing at Different Rates in Different Countries

The United State and European countries are now in particular fast rise, with the largest number of confirmed cases in the US, and death tolls growing more quickly in Italy, Spain, the UK and US than they did in China at the same stage of the outbreak.

This article is excerpted from COVID-19 Outbreak: Analysis of Global Aviation Operation (Updated Mar 30, 2020).