{"id":216154,"date":"2021-09-16T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/flights-to-italy-air-traffic-still-far-from-pre-covid-levels"},"modified":"2021-09-16T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:40:55","slug":"flights-to-italy-air-traffic-still-far-from-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/en\/flights-to-italy-air-traffic-still-far-from-pre-covid-levels","title":{"rendered":"Flights to Italy, air traffic still far from pre-Covid levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we look back (at least one and a half years ago), we could gradually re-read all the forecasts estimated by the many tourism professionals who undertook the arduous task. It was (and still is) a difficult, almost impossible task considering how quickly the scenario changes and how many variables continuously influence tourist flows.<\/p>\n

Disproved optimistic scenarios<\/h2>\n

Today, we can start to sum up, as the start of the school year unofficially marks the end of the summer season: indeed, the end of the first summer season post-pandemic. Among negative, optimistic, and hyper-optimistic forecasts, we can now definitely say that scenarios predicting full recovery as early as 2021 have been disproved<\/strong>. Regarding flight demand, in 2021, Italian airports continued to suffer the heavy legacy of the previous year, despite the easing of restrictions and an improvement in the health situation.<\/p>\n

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The summer months were emblematic: during July, flight searches increased by 12.5% compared to the previous year<\/strong>, while in August, they increased by 30.5%<\/strong>. These seem, overall, very positive growth figures, but this judgment must be weighed against pre-pandemic values: consider that flight searches for the month of January 2020 were 34.7 million, and in 2021, 5.0 million<\/strong>. An 85% loss in travel demand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tourism has changed a lot during this period: in the chosen destinations, in forms of accommodation, in customer priorities. For example, we know that much outbound tourism<\/em> has transformed into domestic tourism<\/em>, that some types of destinations suffered more than others, and that smart working has launched the Holiday working<\/em>: we still don\u2019t know how many and which changes will solidify into new trends, but certainly 2021 was not the year of the \u201cboom\u201d<\/strong>. It was a year of change, imbalance, and restart: factors that will heavily influence the future structure of the sector while waiting for the return of volumes we are accustomed<\/em> to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2021, airline flight searches for Italy hardly exceeded those of 2020: especially regarding the summer months, market volumes are similar, and we are still far from recovering the figures from early 2020.<\/div>\n

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