21 years of airlines passenger traffic growth wiped out in 2020: Cirium report revels

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Global passenger traffic was down an estimated 67% this year versus 2019 and was reduced to 1999 levels. Travel restrictions to curb COVID-19 forced airlines to cut flights by 49%, from 33.2 million in 2019 to 16.8 million during 2020. Only 3.8 million flights flown internationally in 2020; 77% of all flights were domestic.