10 striking visualisations show how the world’s busy airspaces have gone quiet – The National

  • Date: 29-Mar-2020
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:UAE
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10 striking visualisations show how the world’s busy airspaces have gone quiet – The National

10 striking visualisations show how the world's busy airspaces have gone quiet. A graph posted today shows an almost vertical dip in the amount of commercial flights in the air.. On Saturday, March 28, they reported tracked 69,510 flights - 20,000 less than the day before.. A normal day in late March last year saw them tracking around 180,000 flights.. On 28 March, we tracked 69,510 flights-nearly 20,000 fewer flights than the day before.. We already looked into the quietening of UAE skies (which you will find ) after a two-week ban on commercial flights departing from and arriving into the UAE came into force last Wednesday.. This comparison of Europe (slide to see difference) shows the number of commercial flights tracked on February 28, compared to March 27. The March 28 image shows less than ten flights in the air.. The visualisation shows flight routes over the North Atlantic, comparing March 2019 with March 2020.. How the busiest airspaces in the world look right now.... 7. Beijing Capital International Airport. The day the UAE skies fell silent: striking images show vanishing regional flights.