This year has seen London stage a recovery. London converged with other global cities, but it is still far from pre-pandemic equilibrium The remaining cities only include one airport. Notes: London’s data includes Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stanstead Paris includes Charles-De-Gaulle and Orly. Source: Eurocontrol, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Figure 2 : London a irport activity was still perform ing below other global cities by the end of 2021 Figure 1: London airport activity was below other similar global cities during the first two years of the pandemic Figure 2 shows London airports were seeing 64 per cent of activity in December last year compared to pre-pandemic levels, against 90 per cent in New York and 80 per cent in Paris and Amsterdam. By the end of 2021, it was underperforming several global cities. Figure 1 shows that while cities across the world saw daily air traffic plummet at the start of the pandemic, the British capital saw a much slower recovery than its international counterparts, such as Amsterdam and Paris, throughout 20. London air traffic lagged other global cities in 20Ĭovid hit traffic into London airports particularly hard. But how does London measure up to other international cities? Data on traffic at airports gives some insight.
In a recent blog we looked at how tourists have returned to London relative to other parts of the UK.