On this episode of Avtoc, the industry recovery expands as we pass a hundred thousand commercial

flights for the first time in over a year. The operator of the Trans Air flight that crashed in Hawaii

is grounded by the FAA and British Airways is quickly fixing its

uncovered holes. Hello and welcome to episode 121 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchen here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz. Hi Ian how are you? I'm doing well

Jason how are you sir? I'm fine it's a slow week it is a slow week and this will

certainly be I guess the slow show or fast show I guess is the way to look at it

slow quick but boring show well let's not call it boring before we even get going.

I mean, a mere 30 seconds in to this, it'll probably be a little bit.

We'll re-evaluate at the end.

There you go.

Okay, so let's get into it then, shall we?

Good news from the start.

Last Friday, we tracked over 100,000 commercial flights for the first time since the 13th of March

last year.

Hooray!

So I'm calling that one a win.

So it took the better part of 18 months, but we made it to a purely arbitrary

milestone, but one that I think is worth celebrating, certainly still down from 2019 year on year, but I guess years on year.

But things are looking up, especially the recovery is starting to spread out a little bit, which I think is the more important point to be made because we've seen the domestic U.S. market just kind of rocket out of the gate since late April, early May as vaccine levels took hold and people started traveling again.

But now things are starting to kind of move in other places. So the

breakdown the top three continents as far as traffic goes, North America was the top at 37 percent Asia 31 percent and then Europe down at 21 percent and then South America Africa and Australia accounting for between 2 and 4 percent apiece.

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