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What happened to transport last week - the crisis is developing

The most important:

  • Airlines in the Russian Federation did not submit anti-crisis plans, but began long repairs of aircraft.
  • The number of trips around Russia has sharply decreased, but unevenly: for example, in the central part of the trip, short distances were less affected than others.
  • Russian Railways will return tickets of "non-refundable" fares until June 1.
  • Now they put in trains two in a compartment, three in a reserved seat.
  • There is a beautiful graph of data on transportation and passenger traffic in Europe:



There are 300 flights within Russia today (401 last week), but last week we counted out 3,168, including cargo and private flights, and now excluded them, and we track the once glorious 2,642 ordinary flights.

In Russia


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Russian Railways has increased the period for returning travel documents purchased at a non-refundable rate until June 1. A refund fee for unused tickets will not be charged.
Following the European companies, ATOR asked for a delay in refunds for failed tours until 2022.

What's going on around the world


Sojern analysts conducted a study of global ticket sales for flights to European countries. Despite the drop in demand, experts have seen a surge in “early interest” over the past 14 days. So the UK for the previous 2 weeks showed an increase in bookings for January 2021 by 242%, Spain by 160%.

Singapore Airlines was forced to land 138 of its 147 aircraft and suspend 96% of the traffic. Their international bandwidth is 2017-2020.


Cathay Pacific also plans to reduce passenger traffic by 96% in April and May.

All Nippon Airways increased the share of domestic flights compared to 2019. In the week of March 30, 2020, 63.7% of the total ANA capacity was internal, compared with 38.6% in the week of April 1, 2019.

Japan Airlines is also increasing domestic market share. In the domestic market, it is now 55% against 34.4% a year earlier.


Korean Air. The ratio of seats on domestic and international flights for the week from March 30, 2020.


Qantas will cease all international services from late March, at least until the end of May, and reduce domestic capacity by 60%.

Virgin Australia on March 13, 2020, stated that it was somewhat “isolated” from falling in the international market, as it is “primarily a domestic airline” with 78% of revenue from this side of the business. Since then, however, he has been forced to suspend 90% of his domestic capacity.

Air New Zealand reduced its international, and from April 2, domestic capacity by 95%.

Ryanair announcedthat operates at 1% of its capacity, performing 20 flights a day, against 2,500 flights in the same period last year.

  • Traffic between Europe and the USA
  • IATA : global airlines can not afford to refund customers for canceled tickets. The association said that the finances of airlines are so unstable that they can not afford to return money to customers. In March, airline sales fell 60%.
  • The European Commission has proposed that the EU and its associated states close their external borders by May 15, in order to minimize travel. It is also proposed to extend internal border control.
  • Closing airports in Portugal .

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  • In South Korea , dozens of cured patients again discovered coronavirus. South Korean authorities announced that already in 91 people who had previously been cured of coronavirus, tests again showed its presence in the body.
  • Aeroflot no longer refunds tickets . The airline has stopped the refund procedure for canceled tickets. The carrier system technically does not allow issuing both voluntary and forced return tickets. The airline has not yet explained the changes.


A new runway appeared in Poland , the first flight made a very strange flight.

What does it look like on our part?


The first line of the call center finally exhaled. The second line of the air is still a large volume of applications attacking in recent weeks. About 30% of applications are due to the fact that not all airlines have a clear decision on returns. But in any case, the incoming stream is already smaller than the processed stream.

Here are the rail returns. Yellow - those tickets that it was decided to save and use, blue - those that were returned:


As we said in the last series , people go one way. There are new trends:
  • Tickets are bought today-tomorrow
  • People travel from megacities and resort cities to regions
  • There are still many trips in the center of Russia over short distances
  • Many who have already traveled along the route before the crisis repeat it (most likely, these are those who travel for company affairs, shift workers, small businesses).


We updated the Radar of Hope , adding new features and clearing the issuance of cargo flights. Here is the situation now:



It seems that this is not the bottom. Ahead may be waiting for a much larger economic crisis, but at least with a large number of flights.

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