{"id":37391,"date":"2020-10-17T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=37391"},"modified":"2020-10-17T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T17:30:57","slug":"airport-fever-is-at-its-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/airport-fever-is-at-its-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport fever is at its lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heathrow airport lost over 72% of passengers from all over the world between January and October, in comparison with the same period in 2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data also shows that travellers account for only one-fourth of last year’s figures are travelling from Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n

April 2020 withness the lowest passager flow with only 9,646\u00a0Britons among 206,324 total traveller.<\/p>\n

North America market experienced the biggest crush. A record of just over\u00a027,000\u00a0of passengers arrived in April 2020, the number was 57 times higher in 2019 with 1,557,547 passengers in the same month.<\/p>\n

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Graphic of Heathrow passengers per month | Source – Heathrow<\/p><\/div>\n

Airports from all over the world are experiencing different levels of decline in passager flow.<\/i><\/p>\n

Voice of London\u2019s reporter Yuan Luo began her journey in Heathrow London and tracked this in relation to Keyuan, a Chinese student in France, journeying from southern China to Paris.<\/p>\n

Despite the destination, however, the experiences were vastly different.<\/span><\/p>\n