Brazilian pandemic-led aviation crisis, explained in numbers

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the aviation sector was one of many first to go. International locations all over the world closed their borders, flights had been grounded, and airports become veritable ghost cities. A report launched in mid-December by the Nationwide Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has translated the palpable collapse of the sector into figures: the variety of passengers fell 53 % in relation to 2019, whereas the amount of transported cargo dipped 29.6 %.

Whereas these findings hardly come as a shock, the novelty of the IBGE research is that it breaks down figures…