Aena closes year 2021 120 million passengers - Ryanair continues to lead and increases the gap with Vueling and Iberia.
The large airlines operating in the Aena airport network maintained their good traffic figures during 2021.
The Aena network closed the second year of the crisis with 119.9 million passengers between take-offs and landings, that is, 56.4% below the traffic of 2019.
Most airlines improved their passenger traffic compared to 2020, when the pandemic broke out, except for the German Lufthansa (down 26%, with 2.3 million users); Binter (fall 22.7%, with 1.7 million passengers) and Norwegian (54% than in 2020 with 600,000 passengers in Spain).
With the exception of these 3, the rest of the top 25 companies improved their numbers of thanks to vaccination campaigns and the relaxation of restrictions on cross-border mobility, CincoDías reports.
Aena closes year 2021 120 million passengers
Passengers continue to bet on low cost in Spain, as evidenced by the top 10 airlines by number of users that includes 7 companies in this category: Ryanair, Vueling, Easyjet, TUI, Iberia Express, Eurowings and Transavia.
The other 3 airlines that complete the podium are the Spanish Iberia, Air Europa and Air Nostrum.
As expected, the Irish Ryanair continues to be the queen and is already close to 90% of the occupancy factor in its overall operations, reports the same media, which adds that the airline has recovered 44.4% of the traffic of travellers with origin or destination in Spain.
These good numbers have widened the gap of the company that already has 19.4 million users and distances itself by 5.7 million users over Vueling and the Iberia Group. The previous year, the difference was 4 and 3 million passengers, respectively.
Ryanair's expectations are so good that they expect to reach 100% of their production in Spain this winter compared to 2019 levels, with 523 routes to or from 27 Aena airports and 71 aircraft in ten bases, reports CincoDías.
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Vueling recovered 47.5% of traffic in 2021 compared to 2019 levels, a figure similar to Iberia, which achieved 45.6%.
Following the low-cost airlines in the Spanish market, Iberia Express ranks seventh after exceeding 3.1 million users.
In ninth place is Eurowings, from the Lufthansa group, which closed 2021 with 2.8 million travellers and recovering almost 51% of its traffic in our country compared to levels prior to the outbreak of COVID-19.
France's Transavia, from Air France-KLM, ranks tenth on the list with 2.8 million passengers and 74% of the volume handled in 2019.
Those that have not managed to approach the pre-pandemic figures are Norwegian (following 8 million passengers compared to 2019) or the British low cost Jet2.com, very important for the Spanish market and that has only managed to recover 24% of the traffic of then.
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If workers knew how much they could earn elsewhere, most would quit their jobs, and low-wage jobs would be forced to pay more, according to the study
If low-wage workers knew how much they could earn elsewhere, many jobs would be unsustainable, because workers would simply quit.
This is what a new study by economists from MIT, the University of Cologne, the London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley says.
The researchers set out to test a long-held economic hypothesis: that workers know what they could earn elsewhere and know what similar jobs pay. But it doesn't seem that way in the real world.
The research group surveyed 516 German part-time and full-time workers in 2019 and 2020. The result: workers, especially those with low or poorly paid wages, believe that wages elsewhere are much closer (and lower) to what they currently earn, than they really are.
In Germany, 10-17% of low-wage jobs would not be viable at their current pay if workers knew exactly how much they could earn elsewhere, the study concludes.
"Workers would resign or ask for big raises if they had accurate perceptions or information about wages with other employers," Benjamin Schoefer, an economist at UC Berkeley and one of the authors of the paper, tells.
An almost record number of Americans have quit their jobs over the past 8 months. In November 2021, the most recent month for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released data, 4.5 million workers resigned.
The resignations were led by low-wage workers, with a record 1 million leisure and hospitality workers.
The new study by Schoefer and colleagues presents an "intriguing argument," says Nick Bunker, director of economic research at the job site Indeed. In 2021, workers have become aware of their external choices in other companies or industries and that has "fuelled part of this abandonment".
"That's something to watch for in the future, if maybe, for a certain level of demand, people are more likely to quit their job," Bunker tells.
According to Schoefer, one of the possible consequences of the researchers ' findings is that if workers are more informed about what they could earn elsewhere —for example, by constant news coverage of companies that pay more amid labour shortages— they could ask for raises or resign.
"One way to interpret today's economy is that maybe many workers who were trapped in low-wage jobs realize that there may be other jobs out there that potentially pay more," Schoefer says.
Undoubtedly, the survey covers German workers, not Americans, or Spaniards, but Schoefer explains that both economies (German and North American) have many points in common, and that in both countries there is a big difference between working in a well-paid or poorly paid company.
