Ammon News - Official data of the Civil Aviation Regulatory commission (CARC) showed a sharp decrease in the passenger movement through Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) by 93% since March 17 to the end of 2020, after anti-Covid-19 restrictions issued by the government on air navigation domestically came into effect to prevent the virus outbreak.

Over the March-December period 2020, some 532,000 passengers arrived and departed through QAIA, while the airport received a total of 9426,000 in-bound and outbound flights in the same period, compared to about 7,327 million passengers and 64,977,000 flights for the 2019 comparison period, the CARC data revealed.
As for air cargo, the QAIA handled 49,701 tons last year, compared with 105,402, tons in 2019, a drop of about 53%.

Meanwhile since beginning of January to March 16, 2020, the CARC said the airport saw a slight decrease in passenger traffic by 5%, as QAIA received about 1.518 million passengers, against some 1.597 million for the 2019 comparison period, announcing the airport also received 14,792 flights, compared to 14,764.