Airlines recover pulse 70 percent 2019 166 percent 2020 - Airlines recover their pulse: this Sunday flights in Spain reached 70% of the same day in 2019 and rose 166% compared to 2020.

The airlines fly and improve their results compared to last year, during a summer marked by the pandemic that, although it has not disappeared, already perceives the benefits of broader restrictions and advances in vaccination plans.

From Hosteltur they collect data from Enaire referring to last Sunday, when flights reached 70% of those made on the same Sunday of 2019 in Spain, including overflights. These results reached 90% in the case of Palma de Mallorca and 85% in Seville.

The best news comes looking back to the same date of the previous year: on the same summer Sunday last year, 166% fewer flights were made than today, due to restrictions and stoppages caused by the coronavirus.

On Sunday, July 18, 5,015 movements were controlled by Enaire. The information recorded is a symptom of some recovery in the aviation sector.

Airlines recover pulse 70 percent 2019 166 percent 2020

In addition to the data shown, it should be noted that Madrid is at 61%, Barcelona at 74% and the Canary Islands at 77%. For its part, on Sunday Ibiza operated at the same level of traffic of similar day 2019. Tenerife North and Valencia at 95% and GranCanaria at 90%.

Eurocontrol recorded 4,175 operations at Spanish airports on Sunday, 73.2% of a similar day in 2019. Currently, 3 airports in Spain are among the 10 with the most traffic in Europe: Palma, Bajas and Barcelona.

Airlines recover pulse 70 percent 2019 166 percent 2020

According to IATA estimates last year, pre-pandemic air traffic levels will not return until after 2024.

In the first quarter of 2021, when there were strong limitations to mobility and measures such as curfew or the restriction to move between communities, Aena reduced its income by 54.8% compared to the same period last year to 353.3 million euros. The crash in air traffic exceeded 80%.

Another Eurocontrol report points out that in Spain in 2020 flights fell by 61%, above the European average, estimating that in 2021 only half of the air traffic recorded in 2019 will recover. For the moment, the summer begins to show hopeful strokes of recovery for the sector.

Airlines recover pulse 70 percent 2019 166 percent 2020

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Escrivá predicts that employment will recover the level prior to the coronavirus at the end of July and highlights that 87,000 workers have left the ERTE in the first half of the month

"July is another extraordinarily dynamic month in terms of employment", as announced on Monday the minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, during the presentation of the data of affiliation and workers affected by the files of temporary employment regulation of the first 15 days of July, for which he has predicted a creation of 151,000 new jobs when the month closes.

The minister stressed that the fifth wave is not causing significant effects on the recovery of the labor market after the impact of the pandemic, noting that, until July 15, no figures corroborate that the dynamism in job creation is being slowed by the increase in the rate of contagion. Thus, Escrivá has affirmed that the last 2 months will have recovered 400,000 jobs, especially after the good employment data of June.

Escrivá added that since February 800,000 members of the Social Security have recovered and 620,000 workers have left the ERTE, which means that 1.4 million workers are already back in activity in 4 months. The minister has assured that the affiliation will grow by 150,000 jobs in July in average terms, which has highlighted that it will mean surpassing in average the levels prior to the crisis, as shown in the graph above.

On the other hand, the minister has assured that the self-employed are being especially benefited by this reactivation of the job, pointing out that there are 11,000 more people enrolled in this regime during the first 2 weeks of July, in addition to highlighting the very significant reduction of workers in ERTE, which is accelerated with respect to June, up to a total of 360,000 affected, of 240,000 have an effect on total time and the rest part-time.

This reduction of workers in ERTE implies that in the first 15 days of July, 87,000 people have regained their jobs, which for the Minister of Social Security translates into an acceleration of the trends that were already shown in June, while he has highlighted that the 361,000 workers who remain in ERTE represent 55% of those who were in this situation 2 months ago.

By sectors, José Luis Escrivá has stood out in accommodation 17% of employment continues in ERTE, while only 2 sectors have more than 20% employment protected by this regime, air transport and travel agencies, highlighting that the activities that recovered less prepandemia are those that continue to travel to ERTE. While by territories, it has announced that in the Canary Islands 9% of workers are still in ERTE, 6% in the Balearic Islands and above 2% in Madrid, Andalusia and Catalonia.

In addition, Escrivá highlighted the reduction in temporary employment, stating that there are 400,000 more permanent members and specifying that, by sector, some are still recovering from the labor impact of the coronavirus, but there are already a good number who already have employment levels above before the pandemic and continue to grow, which he described as "broad-spectrum recovery".

The Minister of Social Security has ruled out that there is contagion effect in sectors that have not been directly impacted by the coronavirus. "The dynamism of employment is guaranteed", he added, explaining also that the public expenditure behind this effort to sustain employment was 14,000 million euros in 2020 and 6,000 million more until June, which means more than 20,000 million in total expenditure in ERTE.