Air industry faces summer chaos

As the aviation industry struggles to overcome crippling staff shortages and labour strife, airlines are planning to cancel hundreds of flights ahead of the peak summer travel period


Global aviation industry jobs pre-pandemic: 11.29 million

3.6 million
Airlines
Flight and cabin crews, ground-handlers, check-in, maintenance

1.3 million
Civil aerospace 
Engineers and designers of civil aircraft, engines and components

648,000
Airport operators 
Operations, planning, engineering, security

237,000
Air navigation service providers 
Air traffic controllers, engineers, executives

5.5 million
Other airport
Customs, immigration, car rental, freight forwarders, catering

Jobs must combine seamlessly for aviation industry to work

Mar 2020: Pandemic closes global borders. 128,000 flights – carrying 12 million passengers per day – grounded

2020-21: Global aviation industry loses 2.3 million jobs during pandemic, including 1.7 million ground-handlers

2.3 million


Passenger numbers
-00.0% Change on 2019	-$00.0bn Fall in passenger revenue	
2019	4.49bn
2020	1.79bnv		-60.1% -$372.4bn
2021	2.29bn		-49.0% -$323.6bn
2022*	3.49bn-plus	-22.2% -$154.8bn

*ICAO estimates between 3.42bn and 3.57bn passengers

 
Sources: International Civil Aviation Organization, Air Transport Action Group 
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