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The International Air Transport Association (IATA)
today released its monthly statistics for scheduled international airline traffic for December and year 2002.
In the month of December passenger traffic was up 12.7% on the previous year, an increase that was exaggerated by the depressed traffic levels at the
end of 2001. Freight traffic grew by 6.6%, continuing the positive trend seen
during the second half of 2002.
2002 Results
Full year 2002 results show a slight net increase in international passenger
traffic on IATA carriers over 2001 of 0.06%. However passenger capacity fell
by 4.3%, resulting in a 3.3% improvement in the overall passenger load factor
for the year. Freight traffic shows an increase of 6.5% for the year. Overall
capacity (passenger and freight combined) fell by 2.5%.
| International Traffic and Capacity (Percent Change over 2001) |
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| Carriers |
RPK |
ASK |
FTK |
ATK |
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RPK |
ASK |
FTK |
ATK |
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(Monthly, December) |
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(Jan-Dec 2002) |
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| Europe |
10.7 |
7.1 |
3.7 |
6.5 |
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-4.9 |
-8.9 |
0.1 |
-8.4 |
| N. America |
11.1 |
6.9 |
16.1 |
9.3 |
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-0.9 |
-6.0 |
4.7 |
-3.8 |
| S. America |
19.6 |
7.1 |
16.2 |
-16.2 |
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6.4 |
4.6 |
4.7 |
1.1 |
| Asia Pacific |
16.7 |
12.8 |
11.3 |
13.1 |
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5.8 |
1.1 |
13.3 |
3.7 |
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| Overall* |
12.7 |
8.0 |
6.6 |
8.5 |
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0.1 |
-4.3 |
6.5 |
-2.5 |
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* figures are provisional - represent total reporting plus estimates for missing data
RPK - Revenue Passenger-Kilometres
ASK - Available Seat-Kilometres
FTK - Freight Tonne-Kilometres
ATK - Available Tonne-Kilometres
Region refers to area of carrier registration
With regard to regional results, Giovanni Bisignani, IATA's CEO and Director
General, highlighted the continuing traffic growth in Asia Pacific. "Asia Pacific
carriers ended the year with encouraging traffic figures compared with other
regions. Passenger traffic grew by 5.8% and freight traffic by 13.3% in contrast
to the results seen for North American and European carriers."
Comparisons with 2000
Since 2001 was an exceptionally bad year, a better idea of overall traffic and
capacity trends is seen from a comparison of 2002 with 2000 on the following
graph. Current passenger traffic levels are averaging a 4.0% decline and
freight a 2.0% decline, on two years ago. |
