In January 2020, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics states domestic flight cancellations were at 1.3%, higher than December 2019 rates (1.1%) but 64.52% lower compared to January 2019 rates (3.15) (Bureau of Transportation, 2020).Īccording to a 2020 study by Colibra, there is an airline whose vast majority of flights result in cancellations. Cancellations for 2019 saw an increase of 5.74% with rates climbing back again since 2017. These disruptions came after the 9/11 attacks a time when airport check-ins and security saw an extensive overhaul and TSA patdowns and body searches became the norm. The lowest number of flight cancellations was in 2002 at 65,140. The year 2001 saw the highest number of flight cancellations from major American carriers with 231,200 canceled flights. Flight cancellations cost American commercial airlines $22 billion annually. For Americans, the results show 40% have never left the country while 13% have never flown on a plane (Forbes, 2019).įlight delays and cancellations are common occurrences in airports. Muilenburg, former Boeing CEO, has claimed that only about 20% of the world’s population has traveled by air. What percentage of the world flies?ĭennis A. Worldwide passenger numbers from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) place the number of people who flew annually at 4.5 billion. The number of passengers who flew in and out of US airports was 2,900,000 (FAA, 2020) based on data from the FAA prior to the pandemic.
Prior to COVID-19, the Federal Aviation Administration affirms its Air Traffic Organization (ATO) has handled 45,000 local flights a day or over 16,405,000 a year (FAA, 2020). The year 2020 had over 16 million global flights. These only count commercial flights and do not include private chartered flights, freight, and military flights. As of February 2021, the number is back up to around 151,435, down by 27,407 from the same period in 2020 (Flightradar24, 2021), which was prior to the pandemic. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of daily flights dropped from 106,849 flights per day in 2019 to 74,297 in March 2020 (Statista, 2020).
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