EUROCONTROL Data Snapshots
2021
Measuring horizontal flight efficiency - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #14
Published: 13 Jul 2021
The 14. EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at horizontal en-route flight efficiency - and why the shortest route is not necessarily the most fuel efficient one.
Change in operational fleet mix (01-21 June 2021 vs 01-21 June 2019) - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #13
Published: 29 Jun 2021
The 13. EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at how airlines reduced the complexity of their aircraft fleet mix in the last two years and introduced more fuel-efficient aircraft types.
Inactive Aircraft in Europe - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #12
Published: 22 Jun 2021
The 12. EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the level of inactive aircraft and how, across Europe, aircraft are being woken for the summer..
Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at European airports? - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #11
Published: 08 Jun 2021
The eleventh EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot tackles the question - Can regulation and focused logistics unlock the availability of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at European airports?.
Surveillance Radar Overload - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #10
Published: 10 May 2021
The tenth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the overload on the use of Surveillance Radar.
2020 - smaller aircraft, shorter flights and fluctuating weight - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #9
Published: 22 April 2021
The ninth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the fact that the average flight in 2020 was 7.6% shorter than 2019, but the average flight weight fluctuated from month to month quite dramatically compared with the relatively steady levels in 2019.
The costs of air traffic management in Europe - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #8
Published: 23 March 2021
The eighth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot is dedicated to how costs of air traffic management in Europe became disconnected from traffic around 2008.
COVID-19’s impact on Europe’s long-haul network - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #7
Published: 16 March 2021
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe’s high-frequency long-haul network is cut by two-thirds.
How has COVID-19 impacted the network? - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #6
Published: 09 March 2021
Right now, most routes across the Network are lower frequency and mostly domestic – find out where the flows are in the latest Data Snapshot, which compares 02/2021 and pre-pandemic 02/2020. The new Data Snapshot compares the busy short and medium-haul routes right now, with this time last year, pre-COVID.
All-cargo flights market share - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #5
Published: 23 Feb 2021
A growing number of empty passenger aircraft are operating freight-only flights, finds our latest Data Snapshot, which looks at the growth of air cargo during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CO₂ emissions by flight distance - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #4
Published: 16 Feb 2021
The fourth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot expands on the fact that half of CO₂ emissions come from just 6% of flights: the long-haul ones.
COVID-19 cuts to flights have interrupted Airbus’s growing dominance of flights in Europe - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #3
Published: 09 Feb 2021
The EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot reveals that COVID-19 has massively reduced the number of flights by Airbus aircraft across the network, reversing a decade-long trend.
CO₂ emissions from flights in 2020 - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #2
Published: 26 Jan 2021
CO2 emissions fell by 57% in the EUROCONTROL network area in 2020 – but, as our latest EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot 2020 shows, that breaks down into big variations across States.
Airline schedules during 2020 were a weaker guide to flights than usual - EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #1
Published: 12 Jan 2021
In normal times the published airline schedules are a pretty good indicator of how many scheduled flights there will be. However, these are not normal times. One stark indicator of the volatility of COVID-related travel restrictions in the last 10 months is the fraction of scheduled flights which were actually operated, even in the week immediately after the schedule was published.
