YLE: Air travel recovering well in Europe, slower in Finland

AIR TRAFFIC in Europe appears to have begun its recovery from the stoppage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, although relatively unevenly across the continent.

The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) has reported that airlines operated last week roughly 70 per cent of their pre-pandemic flights in Central Europe. Most of the flights were operated, often by low-cost carriers, in the airspaces of France, Italy and Spain.