OIL DEMAND MONITOR: Motorists Return, Flying Throttled Back
- No late summer burst in European air traffic numbers
- Monday morning traffic in Paris was the busiest all year
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More motorists are getting back behind the wheel even as flying begins to stagnate with the end of summer travel across much of the globe and as concern about the coronavirus delta variant lingers on.
Weekly toll road data across three European and three Latin American countries highlight the return to the highways. Kilometers traveled in Italy, Spain, Brazil, Chile and Mexico are all above the equivalent week in 2019, some of them for many weeks in a row, according to Atlantia Group, which operates those roads.