African Airlines traffic slipped 1.1% in February

Following IATA’s latest analysis of demand for passenger air transport based on traffic data for February 2020 when there was a 14% plunge in demand (compared with Feb 2019), as the COVID-19 and associated travel restrictions began to be introduced, African airlines saw a 1.1% drop in traffic versus a 5.6% traffic increase recorded in January and the weakest outcome since 2015.