{"id":268,"date":"2022-12-21T03:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2022-12-21T03:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:17:03","slug":"counting-airplanes-throughout-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Counting airplanes throughout the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: <\/strong> If you have questions or comments about the dataset used here, do not hesitate to contact me. You will find my email on my personal website<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n

As I mentioned a a few months ago<\/a> I’ve been collecting flight statistics for over 4 years. It happened that these 4 years were the most interesting in the industry ever. 2022 is the year when the travel demand is back to normal, but the airlines struggle with supply, because of the cuts they made in 2020\/2021 to survive.<\/p>\n

Depending on the country and region, people were living in lockdowns and countries were banning local and international travel. I think I don’t need to explain that to anyone.<\/p>\n

On top of the Pandemic, we were witnessing events influencing individual airplane models. One of the examples of such events was the retirement of Airbuses A380 because they were too big. Some airlines now work hard to bring them back (ex. Lufthansa announced to bring back four A380s in 2023).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we had two catastrophes of Boeing’s 737 MAX-8 that grounded all of them for many months.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago Boeing produced the last 747 – one of the most recognizable planes in history. I created most of the content for this article while onboard 747 – my symbolic tribute to this great plane. I had the pleasure of traveling on both the lower and upper decks of this plane, however, I still hope that one day I will be able to get the First Class ticket that allows sitting “in front of the pilot” – a pretty unique thing.<\/p>\n

Ok, let’s get to the data! I used my huge dataset to calculate the number of airplanes (unique machines), by model and date. Let me show you the most interesting results:<\/p>\n

Boeing 737 MAX-8<\/h3>\n

On October 29, 2018, Lion Air Flight 610, a 737 MAX 8, plunged into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Soekarno\u2013Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia. On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a 737 MAX 8, crashed approximately six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This second crash (marked as a red vertical dashed line) caused all MAX-8s to be grounded. It took almost 2 years before these planes were allowed back in the air. This model is constantly produced and sold, hence the growing number of planes in time.<\/p>\n

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Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, and Cessna VS the Pandemic<\/h3>\n

If we look at results consolidated by plane manufacturers we can see how differently the Pandemic affected commercial airliners (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer) and private planes (Cessna). I do realize that I generalize here the distinction between commercial and private.<\/p>\n

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Most popular models vs the Pandemic<\/h3>\n

Let’s look at the selection of popular planes and their counts in the air during the Pandemic. This plot is normalized: for each plane model, 1 on the y-axis is corresponding to the average number of planes a day before January 1st, 2022. We can see that the different models were “hit” differently by the Pandemic, but all of them still struggle to get back to “pre Pandemic” counts.<\/p>\n

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Individual airplanes<\/h3>\n

In case you are interested in other examples, I’m sharing plots for most airplane models. I encourage you to take a look and let me know if you found anything interesting.<\/p>\n

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\nBoeing 737-800
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\nAirbus A320
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\nAirbus A321
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\nAirbus A319
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\nBoeing 737-700
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\nCessna 172
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\nBoeing 777-300ER
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\nAirbus A330-300
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\nBoeing 737-900
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\nBoeing 767-300
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\nAirbus A330-200
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\nCessna 208 Caravan
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\nBoeing 757-200
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\nDe Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q
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\nBoeing 787-9
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\nEmbraer 190
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\nCanadair Regional Jet 900
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\nCanadair Regional Jet 200
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\nPilatus PC-12
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\nBoeing 777-200
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\nBoeing 787-8
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\nCessna 182 Skylane
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\nBoeing 747-400
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\nEmbraer RJ145
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\nAirbus A350-900
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\nCanadair Regional Jet 700
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\nAirbus A380-800
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\nBoeing 777-200LR
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\nBoeing 737-400
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\nEmbraer 170
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\nEmbraer 195
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\nBoeing 737-300
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\nBoeing 717
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\nAirbus A300-600
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\nBeechcraft Baron
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\nBeechcraft 1900
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\nSaab SF340A\/B
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\nBoeing 747-8
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\nDe Havilland Canada DHC-8-300 Dash 8
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\nEmbraer RJ140
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\nEmbraer RJ135
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\nBoeing 737 MAX 8
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\nPiper PA-31 Navajo
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\nMcDonnell Douglas MD-11
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\nBoeing 737-500
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\nDe Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
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\nFokker 100
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\nMcDonnell Douglas MD-88
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\nSukhoi Superjet 100-95
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\nAirbus A340-300
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\nCanadair Regional Jet 1000
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\nBoeing 767-200
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\nBoeing 757-300
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\nBombardier CS300
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\nAirbus A340-600
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\nMcDonnell Douglas MD-83
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\nBoeing 777-300
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\nAerospatiale\/Alenia ATR 42-500
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\nCessna 210 Centurion
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\nAerospatiale\/Alenia ATR 72
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\nEmbraer EMB 120 Brasilia
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\nAerospatiale\/Alenia ATR 42-600
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\nAirbus A318
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\nMcDonnell Douglas MD-90
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\nAerospatiale\/Alenia ATR 42-300
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\nBoeing 767-400
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\nBoeing 737-600
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\nBoeing 787-10
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\nDouglas DC-10
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\nMcDonnell Douglas MD-82
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\nBombardier CS100
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\nPilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter
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\nAvro RJ100
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\nFokker 50
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\nAirbus A350-1000
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\nAvro RJ85
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\nFairchild Dornier 328JET
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\nAirbus A310
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\nCanadair Regional Jet 100
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\nFairchild Dornier Do.228
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\nIlyushin IL76
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\nBritish Aerospace Jetstream 32
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\nShorts SD.360
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\nBoeing 737-200
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\nFokker 70
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\nSaab 2000
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\nBritish Aerospace Jetstream 41
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\nEmbraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
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\nBoeing 727-200
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\nPartenavia P.68
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\nFairchild Dornier Do.328
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\nPilatus Britten-Norman BN-2A\/B Islander
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\nSikorsky S-76
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\nCessna Citation Mustang
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\nBritish Aerospace ATP
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\nTupolev Tu-204
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\nAntonov An-148
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\nDouglas DC-3
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\nBAe 146-200
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\nBAe 146-300
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\nEmbraer Phenom 100
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Note: If you have questions or comments about the dataset used here, do not hesitate to contact me. You will find my email on my personal website. As I mentioned a a few months ago I’ve been collecting flight statistics for over 4 years. It happened that these 4 years were the most interesting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.marcinpolkowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}