Air traffic in China, Asia Pacific plummets by more than half over COVID-19

If you exclude China, in the rest of the Asia Pacific market, probably about 5000 flights a day and at one point in time we saw about 2500 or something like that. These are rough numbers," Hulst said

Air traffic in China and other Asia Pacific countries has plummeted by more than half due to coronavirus scare, Darren Hulst, Vice president and global head of marketing,Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said on Friday.

Speaking on the sidelines of 'Wings India 2020', an aviation related event here, he said China used to witness as many as 15,000 departures on an average in a normal day and it has come down to about 3,000 flights a day whereas in India, it did not have much impact.

"The mainland China market in normal operations we see about 15,000 departures a day and at