New data show Canadian airline passenger counts doubled in first quarter of 2023, as cargo tonnage collapsed
The aviation trend of planes carrying more passengers and less cargo was strong early this year, according to new Statistics Canada data.
In contrast, those airlines carried much less cargo. Combined, the airlines carried 189,406,000 kilograms of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, down a whopping 40.4 per cent from the 317,844,000 kilograms of merchandise carried in the first quarter of 2022, according to the nation's number cruncher.
The B.C. government first announced that someone in the province had tested positive for the highly infectious Omicron variant on Nov. 30, 2021. By the end of 2021, there were 3,878 known cases in B.C. One week into January 2022, government data showed more than 7,000 known Omicron cases. The government then stopped breaking out and revealing case counts by strain, and recognized that many people were not alerting authorities when they had tested positive if their illnesses were mild.
Airlines responded by filling their hulls with as much cargo as they could because the planes would otherwise be largely empty.
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