Passengers share photos of near-empty planes as travellers around the world ditch air travel amid coronavirus fears
- Social media users have shared images of their near-empty journeys around the world, as the coronavirus continues to steer passengers away from air travel
- Trips to Florida, Vietnam and New York appear to have all been affected by the impact of the pandemic, with one flight even holding as little as 13 passengers
- At least 125,000 patients have been infected and 4,000 have died worldwide since the outbreak began last December
- US President Trump has taken extreme measures to contain the spread of the virus as he’s imposed a 30-day ban on most Europeans entering the country
Social media users have shared images of their near-empty journeys around the world, as the coronavirus continues to steer passengers away from air travel.
Trips to Florida, Vietnam and New York appear to have all been affected by the impact of the pandemic, with one flight even holding as little as 13 passengers.
At least 125,000 patients have been infected and 4,000 have died worldwide since the outbreak began last December, and the virus has been spreading between humans in four continents since February 28, according to the World Health Organization.
US President Donald Trump has taken extreme measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 as he’s imposed a 30-day ban on most Europeans entering the country – excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland – starting at midnight on Friday.
Despite the chaos, which has seen the likes of British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet cancel trips and suffer a £87bn loss in revenue, some airlines are still running ‘ghost flights’ to hold on to valuable ‘use them or lose them’ airport slots.
Social media users have shared images of their near-empty journeys around the world (passenger pictured on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen train line in Tokyo on Wednesday)
The coronavirus continues to steer passengers away from air travel (a man pictured at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington last Friday)
Another Instagram user captured his ghost Delta flight from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota last month
A passenger snapped a photo of a deserted flight to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport last month
Vacant seats were pictured on a Eurowings journey from Germany’s Cologne Bonn Airport last week
A flyer proved there’s no stopping them as they travelled from Denver’s International Airport to Orlando on Wednesday
An image of an unidentified flight was uploaded to Instagram earlier this month, with rows and rows of seats left empty
Holidaymakers opted to stay at home in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19 (flight to Japan pictured on Thursday)
Trips to Florida, Vietnam and New York appear to have all been affected by the impact of the pandemic, with one flight even holding as little as 13 passengers (pictured at London’s Heathrow on Tuesday)
A passenger kicked their feet up on empty chairs as they delighted in not being disturbed by others (Ben Gurion Airport in Israel last week)
An air traveller shared their ‘sadness’ at people’s health fears as they treated their social media followers to a peek at their very quiet unidentified flight on Thursday
Some airlines are still running ‘ghost flights’ to hold on to valuable ‘use them or lose them’ airport slots (photo taken by Robert Maturski on Tuesday)
A handful of passengers boarded a flight from Gatwick Airport on Tuesday
Only two people pictured on a trip from Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport to Vietnam at beginning of the month
The chaos has seen the likes of British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet cancel trips and suffer a £87bn loss in revenue (Delta flight from New York City pictured last week)