Demand for international flying has fallen in recent weeks, according to new data, with a significant hit to bookings to the Middle East in the first signs that the war between Israel and Hamas is affecting air travel.
Global flight bookings made in the three weeks after the October 7 Hamas cross-border raid on Israel were 20 per cent below 2019 levels, according to travel industry data company ForwardKeys.
The decline reverses a trend in which demand had been increasing sharply after international air travel plummeted during the pandemic. Before the attack, bookings were tracking at 15 per cent below 2019 levels, the last year before Covid-19 disrupted the industry.
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