Reading Time: 3 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for July showing an acceleration in demand growth over the previous five months. Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 5.9%, compared to the same month last year, with all regions reporting growth. Monthly capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 6.0%, and load […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE today released its airport traffic report for June, Q2 and the first half of 2016. The report is the only air transport report, which includes all types of civil aviation passenger flights: full service, low cost and charter. It reveals that during the first half of this year, passenger […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute SAS along with overall Scandinavian market have significantly increased its capacity. Market development Demand for long haul traffic, European leisure routes and domestic routes continues to grow. In July, SAS transported a record number of passengers for a July month and had the highest load factor ever for a single month. At the same time, […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dubai International’s (DXB) passenger traffic reached a record 40.5 million passengers in the first half of 2016 according to the traffic report issued by operator Dubai Airports. According to the report, DXB handled a total of 40,506,456 passengers during the first half, up 5.8 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2015 when the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight demand in June 2016 showing a rise in freight tonne kilometers (FTK) of 4.3% year-on-year. This was the fastest pace of growth in 14 months. Freight capacity measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs) increased by 4.9% year-on-year, keeping yields under downward pressure. […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The French civil aviation safety agency Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) has assigned several failures in the system for detecting and preventing mental illness to the cause of the March 24, 2015 crash of Germanwings A320 into the French Alps in its final accident report, issued Sunday. Along with a lack of “clear guidelines” in […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Passenger numbers will be double the expected 2015 total of 3.5 billion by 2034 with seven billion people taking to the skies, according to IATA’s 20 year Passenger Forecast Report. By 2034, the largest passenger markets will be China, the United States, India, the UK and Indonesia. Japan is sixth, Brazil seventh, Spain, Germany and […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hawaiian Airlines ranked the highest among global airlines in November 2015 with an on-time performance of 98.39%, followed by airBaltic (98.22%) and Finnair (97.85%), according to the Global Airline On-time Arrival Performance Report for November 2015 released on December 4 by CARNOC database CADAS (Civil Aviation Data Analysis). This report reflects the on-time arrival performance […]