//Snapshot from flight radar//
Indeed Zacs. And if you looked at that on a normal day you would barely see the map under the main flight corridors and around the major airports for yellow. Perhaps a better grasp can be gained by looking at flight departures from Gatwick. Up to 1pm today it looks like there will be 24 departures. Of those, three are domestic and five are to the Canaries and Portugal. These five will almost certainly be leaving empty and will just pick up people returning to the UK as those two destinations have been virtually closed to incoming passengers. Gatwick usually handles about 150 to 175 departures a day. It is the busiest single-runway airport in the world. Last July it was closed for less than two hours due to an ATC problem. Twenty-eight departures were cancelled and 26 incoming flights had to be diverted. To see just 24 flights in seven hours of operations indicates the effect the pandemic is having. London City is a little difficult to judge because it normally closes for traffic at 1pm on Saturday anyway (until 12:30pm Sunday). But just one flight (to the Isle of Man) seems to have departed this morning.
The aviation business in the UK is, to all intents and purposes, almost at a standstill.