Canton Airport Becomes The Busiest In The World In Full Pandemic

The Chinese southern city airport in Canton has unbalance that of the American Atlanta as the busiest in the world in 2020, with 43.77 million passengers last year, as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemia.

The data published by the Baiyun International Airport in Canton this Tuesday on its website indicate that this important air communications center in the south of the Asian country snatched the crown from Atlanta despite having reduced its number of passengers by more than 40% during the past year.

However, the advancement occurred largely due to the passenger collapse at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, which in 2020 were 61.17% less than the previous year, about 42.9 million in total.

Atlanta had retained the most busy airport plusmarca on the planet for 22 years, partly thanks to its condition of being the important American airline Delta, but the restrictions on international mobility derived from the pandemic have also taken its toll in that sector.

In 2019, Canton airport had registered 73.38 million passengers, which then placed it in the eleventh ranks of the world classification.

However, during 2020, the strict measures carried out by the Chinese authorities against COVID led to a recovery of the earliest normality than in other parts of the world, so traffic could flow again.

For example, Canton airport registered 5.01 million passengers last November, the only one in the world to exceed the monthly barrier of five million since the beginning of the epidemic, according to the source.