It’s no surprise that there are currently fewer planes in the skies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. //

Data gathered by FlightAware shows that there were 98,163 flights across the globe on April 2nd, 2019. However, on the same date a year later, there were only 26,884 services in the air. In comparison, this year kicked with five percent more traffic than New Year’s Day 2019. There were 88,309 flights on January 1st, 2020, ahead of the 84,045 services on the same day the year before.