Airports around the world at the beginning of March 2020 were like beehives around which many bees were swarming. A month later, the sky was no longer covered with plumes left by airplanes.

Restrictions imposed to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus have also reduced the number of air travel. According to Flightradar24, 2,400 flights were canceled in Europe alone at the time.

Almost three years later, we can say that the pandemic has also changed Romanians’ preferences for flying.

Data for the first nine months of 2022 show that passenger traffic is close to what it was before COVID-19.

More than 15.7 million passengers were carried in the first nine months of 2022, double the number for the same period last year and only two million less than the pre-pandemic level.

London for many years it was a foreign city from where most of our passengers come and go.

The second most frequented route is Milan Bergamo, which has maintained its position all these four years. In third place were, in turn, Munich in 2019, Dortmund in 2020, Madrid in 2021 and Vienna this year.

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