En 2020, le Cameroun a enregistré une baisse de 61,8% du trafic de passagers
In March 2020, Cameroon, like almost all countries around the world, closed its borders to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite a gradual reopening of Cameroon's skies from the end of May, air traffic never recovered its 2019 level.
Unsurprisingly, air transport in Cameroon, has suffered the effects of Covid-19 in 2020. This is what emerges from the "Statistical Bulletin 2019" of the Cameroon civil aviation authority (CCAA), published Monday, June 14, and which offers trends for the past year. It states that the number of direct passengers carried fell from 1,512,735 in 2019 to 577,881 in 2020, a decline of 61.8%. Freight tonnage fell from 24,350 tons in 2019 to 18,956 tons in 2020, a decline of 22.2%.
Logically, the number of aircraft movements has also fallen (by 49.6%), from 39,580 in 2019 to 19,966 in 2020. All of these figures are still opposable, however, with the CCAA promising more refined data in the 2020 edition of the "Statistical Bulletin". In any case, this drop in air traffic is the result of the closure of Cameroon's borders in March 2020, like those of several other countries around the world, in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
"In view of the previous results, and had it not been for the advent of the Covid-19 health crisis in March 2020, the outlook was better for the years to come," says the Aviation Authority. The previous results it mentions are positive evolution of commercial air transport of about 3.4% on average per year, from 2015 to 2019.
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