In a European comparison, Austrian aviation is one of the biggest losers from the corona pandemic. A current evaluation by Eurocontrol showed that 2021 percent fewer flights were carried out in 52 than in 2019.

Last year, only Ireland, Finland and the United Kingdom did worse than in the Alpine republic, where declines of around 62 percent were recorded in each case. Seen across Europe, things went only slightly better in 2021 than in Corona year I (2020). Eurocontrol reported around 6,2 million take-offs and landings across Europe for the previous year. This was 4,9 million flight movements above the value in 2019 and only marginally above the performance of 2020. Eurocontrol estimates that the airlines' losses will increase from 22,2 billion euros in 2020 to around 18,5 billion euros in the previous year likely to have reduced.

An interesting picture emerges when looking at the airlines that were most frequently on the move in 2021. The low-cost airline Ryanair operated an average of 1.321 flights a day in the previous year. Although it is around 1.000 legs below the value of 2019, it was still the clear number one in terms of flight movements.

According to the Eurocontrol evaluation, second place went to Turkish Airlines. In the previous year, this airline was on average 938 times a day in European airspace. British Airways, Aeroflot and Norwegian attracted attention with a particularly large number of flight cancellations. At Lufthansa, the offer was reduced by 59 percent, at SAS by 61 percent and at Easyjet by as much as 64 percent.