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UK air travel grew 94% from 1998 to 2019 while GDP grew 48%

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UK air travel grew 94% from 1998 to 2019 while GDP grew 48%
UK: aviation demand vs GDP (growth from annual passenger and GDP sums, 1998 vs 2019, the last pre-COVID full year)
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Each dot plots one quarter's UK passengers against economic output. The dots rise together in a broad band before the pandemic and drop far below it in the pandemic quarters; nothing is fitted.

What this shows: The chart covers 1998 Q1 to 2025 Q4 and its vertical axis shows log(passengers).

Conditions and method
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