{"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":"<p><strong>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<p>Data also shows that travellers account for only one-fourth of last year&#8217;s figures are travelling from Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n<p>April 2020 withness the lowest passager flow with only 9,646\u00a0Britons among 206,324 total traveller.<\/p>\n<p>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<div id=\"attachment_42978\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/airport-fever-is-at-its-lowest\/untitled-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42978\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42978\" class=\"wp-image-42978\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2020\/12\/Untitled-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2020\/12\/Untitled-2.png 730w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2020\/12\/Untitled-2-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic of Heathrow passengers per month | Source &#8211; Heathrow<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Airports from all over the world are experiencing different levels of decline in passager flow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the destination, however, the experiences were vastly different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Airport fever is at its lowest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mOG_9qybc-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Video credit: Yuan Luo &amp; Keyuan Zheng\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check the latest update on the Covid-19 restriction for your destination :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\">Travel advise \u2013 UK GOV<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more Covid-19 story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/non-infectious-diseases-increase-risk-of-death-by-covid\/\">Non-infectious diseases increase risk of death by Covid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/7-weird-things-happening-around-the-uk-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">7 weird things happening around the UK during the coronavirus pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/dos-and-donts-of-the-new-tier-2-covid-restrictions-for-university-students-in-london\/\">Dos and Don\u2019ts of the new Tier 2 COVID restrictions for university students in London<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words &amp; Video: Yuan Luo | Subbing:\u00a0Anuj\u00a0Datta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Data also shows that travellers account for only one-fourth of last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":37392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,45,84,139,147],"tags":[370,1308,1551,1583,1588,2119,2219,2893,2918,3394,3769,4741,6457,6538,6753,6756,6758,6983],"class_list":["post-37391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-europe","category-london","category-video","category-youtube","tag-airport","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-england","tag-experience","tag-health","tag-heathrow-airport","tag-journalism","tag-london","tag-paris","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london","tag-voiceoflondon","tag-vol","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}