Air traffic before and after Europe's coronavirus lockdowns

An animated graphic released by an international aviation organisation shows the dramatic impact the lockdowns have had on air travel. Eurocontrol, which manages flight networks across Europe, said the continent's largest airports had 90% fewer flights compared with April 2019

The Guardian YouTube network:

[kaiplotnikoff]

I know its been significantly reduced but the figures on the right still seem higher than they should be.

[eyesonhoops]

And the earth says, "Finally I can breath again"

[robertperez]

I've heard that, you don't know what you have, until it's gone .
I know now what I have lost, A CLEAN NOISELESS UNPOLLUDED WORLD

[mehp]

Unfortunately, poaching, logging, and deforestation in the world’s most sensitive ecosystems continues unabated.

[like-icecream]

Apart from pollution effect it means nothing if people arriving aren't being tested.

[julianaylor]

I know. I live in North West London and I have an air traffic app on my phone, because I like plane spotting.

[truebluebears]

I live in Scotland and the sky's have been free now for a month no planes whatsoever

[Gugner]

Let it stay that way, for the sake of our planet and life on Earth.

[Daehawk]

Thats still a lot of planes in the air during a pandemic. There should be zero or only emergency ones.

[dang.s]

Absolutely beautiful. But cut back on the air pollution.

[TheSuperPsychoKiller]

The earth is happier, not much pollution. Thank you Covid-19

[Nilguiri]

It is a shame that this does not show US traffic. I looked at the time and it looked pretty much identical to what it always does with thousands upon thousands of flights! Business as usual in the USA. Meanwhile in Spain, there were only about half a dozen flights when I looked which nearly all were repatriation flights from Asia and Africa.

[robertperez]

Por un rato el Mundo sera muy lindo,
sin humo sin ruido sin polucion de ninguna indole, no se si es
Correcto pero algo Bueno tiene que salir de esta mierda.

[ava]

Its nice to see a positive with all the negative thrown our way

[omykris]

Thanks to the Chinese government ... if they informed us earlier we would acted sooner buy blocking the returns of the Chinese students. . . And Everything would of been under control and we would of carried on as normal.

[STurner-SLOBS]

How about showing a video of Elon musks 5G satellites flying over?

[djonfonsteen]

So, on the right its life as normal for the billionaires bond servants!! I willing to bet many of the passengers on those flights haven't been tested