The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week released global passenger demand data for March 2024, showing that total demand, measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs), maintained a positive trajectory in March and was up 13.8% compared to March 2023. Total capacity, measured in available seat kilometers (ASK), was up 12.3% year-on-year. The March load […]
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IATA: 2022 ends on a strong note for the global air passenger industry
Positive trend remained strong throughout 2022 Over the course of 2022, global air passenger traffic gained momentum and recovered substantially as travel restrictions were taken down and passengers expressed a very strong willingness to travel, reports the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Passenger traffic recovered from 41.7% of 2019 volumes in 2021 to 68.5% in […]
IATA: Passenger traffic recovery continues in March
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports that passenger data for March 2022 indicates that the recovery of air travel continues. Impacts from the conflict in Ukraine on air travel demand were quite limited overall while Omicron-related effects continued to be confined largely to Asian domestic markets. Total traffic in March 2022 (measured in […]
IATA: Passenger demand recovery grinds to a halt in November
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports that the recovery in passenger demand, which had been slowing since the Northern hemisphere’s summer travel season, came to a halt in November 2020. In month-on-month terms, there was a small rise in passenger volumes, but much slower than in the previous months. October and November seasonally adjusted […]
Canada announces new COVID-19 testing requirements for all arriving air passengers
The Canadian government announced new COVID-19 testing requirements this week for all air travelers flying into Canada. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the new requirements adds to the country’s existing “draconian COVID-19 border control regimes.” Effective midnight on January 7, 2021, regardless of citizenship, all travelers five years of age or older must provide […]
Urgent appeal from IATA: re-open borders and continue relief to sustain aviation
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling on governments to work together to urgently find ways to re-establish global connectivity by re-opening borders and to continue with relief measures to sustain airlines during the COVID-19 crisis. IATA’s call reflects deep frustration with government policies such as closed borders, travel restrictions and quarantines that continue […]
Aviation industry groups look for alternatives to restrictive quarantines to control spread of COVID-19
Industry organization ACI is calling on governments to replace quarantine measures with robust testing programs to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus through air carriers. Airports Council International (ACI) World is requesting a “robust and consistent protocol for testing,” which the group says should be implemented only when necessary and as an alternative to […]
Airlines, airports gear up for cautious re-openings
A special TMI round-up compiled by Lois Pasternak Airports and airlines in some major countries are getting ready to emerge from lockdown, even as the world reached the unimaginable milestone of 5 million confirmed cases this week. More than 328,000 people have died to date and the real number is likely much higher. The […]
ACI and IATA jointly call for urgent financial assistance to protect aviation jobs and ops
Airports Council International (ACI) World and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have come together to call for governments to urgently grant financial relief to assist airport operators and airlines during the COVID-19 crisis. The joint statement says that the industry is united with governments around the world in efforts to stop the spread of […]
IATA March report: “Industry is in free fall and not yet hit bottom”
To no one’s surprise, global passenger traffic dropped 52.9% in March compared to the year-ago period, according to the latest report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). This was the largest decline in recent history, reflecting the impact of government actions to slow the spread of COVID-19. In seasonally adjusted terms, global passenger volumes […]
IATA: COVID-19 hits January passenger demand
Even though major travel restrictions in China did not begin until January 23, global passenger traffic in January delivered its slowest traffic growth in nearly a decade, reports the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Global passenger traffic for January 2020 climbed 2.4% com-pared to January 2019, reports IATA. This was down from 4.6% year-over-year growth […]
IATA: air passenger demand stays solid but growth trend slows
Global passenger traffic results for May rose 4.5% compared to the same month in 2018, reports the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest analysis. This was in line with the revised April traffic growth of 4.4% and above the recent 3.1% year-on-year growth recorded in March. However, growth remains below the 20-year average […]
IATA: March passenger demand growth slows
Global passenger traffic for March 2019 rose 3.1%, compared to the same month a year ago, reported the International Air Transport Association (IATA) this week. This was the slowest pace for any month in nine years, said IATA. The slowdown began in February, when IATA reported that global passenger traffic rose 5.3%. At that time, […]
IATA reports solid but moderating passenger demand in November
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced healthy but moderating global passenger traffic results for November 2018, with total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) up by 6.2% compared to November 2017. This was a slight deceleration from 6.3% growth in October. Load factor dipped 0.4 percentage point to 80.0%. It was only the third time in […]
IATA forecasts a doubling of air travelers to 8.2 billion by 2037
Present trends in air transport suggest passenger numbers could double to 8.2 billion in 2037, reports the International Air Trans-port Association (IATA) in a forecast released this week. IATA says that the “increasing shift Eastwards in the center of gravity of the industry” is behind the continued strong growth. Over the next two decades, the […]
