- More than 225,000 flights were recorded on Wednesday, July 24 – more than ever recorded on a single day, according to the flight-tracking service Flightradar24.
- While that could partly be attributed to increasingly comprehensive global tracking, air traffic is on a steady increase overall.
- The figure excludes certain sensitive air traffic, including most military flights, so the number is likely higher.
More than 225,000 flights took to the skies on Wednesday, July 24, more than ever recorded before.
Flightradar24, a real-time air-traffic-tracking service, tweeted that this was the first time since it began monitoring flights that it had tracked that many aircraft.
The figure represents virtually every trackable aircraft in the world that flew on Wednesday between midnight and 11:59 p.m. UTC, according to Ian Petchenik, who manages media and community relations for the company.
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