Top 50 Busiest Airports in North America During COVID-19

Real World Aviation
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JetTip has released the statistics for the top 50 busiest airports by departures in North America for the day of April 21, 2020.

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Some notable stats:

  • DFW is now number 1, beating ORD by one departure.
  • ATL has fallen to number 4.
  • Memphis has risen significantly thanks to its Fedex hub.
  • Louisville (SDF) has also risen because of UPS Cargo.
  • Anchorage has risen 40 ranks and is now tied with Phoenix for the ninth busiest airport.
  • The major Canadian airports Vancouver (YVR) and Toronto (YYZ) have fallen far down likely because of government restrictions. Surprisingly, Calgary (YYC) is above them.
  • Both Newark (EWR) and New York JFK (JFK) have fallen significantly to the bottom of the list.

This graph shows the decline of some North American airports:

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The full article: https://jettip.net/blog/22-april-us-canada-covid-19-aviation-traffic-report

Because this calculated by day, some rankings may change for each day.

What are your thoughts? Any of these statistics surprising to you?

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PDX is 26. I am watching it through the window.

#3

I can really see the effect on JFK. Barely any commercial traffic. Majority jetblue, a little sprinkle of Delta and Alaska, and like 5 European flights. Everything else is pure cargo

#4

and with some random 747 freighters coming in so i think its fine or something

#5

JFK and EWR’s decline makes sense cause NY metropolitan area is the hardest hit from the virus

#6

Not surprised San Francisco fell to just over 110 departures a day… almost every international airline has left except for a couple still flying to Taiwan, and United flying 2 long hauls out of the airport.

#7

well atleast YVR is beating YYZ

#8

DFW ayyyyy let’s go

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Crazy thing is that it’s been leveled out sum what since airlines are still maintaining skeleton operations, so PIT which is usually like 65-70 somewhere in there, way, way behind JFK had just four less departures than JFK on the given date. I think we were helped a lot by Southern Airways Express since they’ve dropped virtually no flights since a lot of there’s are dudes by the Essential Air Service at least in part…

#10

Ouch, that chart sure was difficult to take in:(

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