A strong summer in the northern hemisphere saw the global airline sector achieve increased capacity and revenue despite a marginal dip in load factor.<\/p>\n
Latest figures released by IATA last week for July revealed growing year-on-year demand, particular for international flying.<\/p>\n
The global industry body reported that total demand (revenue passenger kilometres RPK), was up 4% compared to July 2024.<\/p>\n
Total capacity (available seat kilometres (ASK), was up 4.4% while load factor in July was 85.5% (down 0.4 percentage points compared to July 2024).<\/p>\n
International demand for the month rose 5.3% year-on-year while capacity was up 5.8%, and the load factor was 85.6%.<\/p>\n
Domestic demand\u00a0increased 1.9% compared, capacity was up 2.4% and load factor was 85.2%.<\/p>\n
Willie Walsh, IATA director general said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a good northern summer season for airlines. Momentum has grown over the peak season with July demand reaching 4% growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat trend appears across all regions and is particularly evident for international travel, which strengthened from 3.9% growth in June to 5.3% in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoreover, with flight volumes showing a 2% year-on-year increase for September after five months of decelerating growth, airlines are positioned to take advantage of this market momentum into the coming months.<\/p>\n
Regional Breakdown \u2013 International Passenger Markets\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n International RPK growth reached 5.3% in July year-on-year, but load factors fell in all regions except Africa.<\/p>\n Asia-Pacific<\/strong> airlines achieved an 8.7% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity increased 9.0% year-on-year, and the load factor was 83.8% (down 0.2 ppt compared to July 2024).<\/p>\n European<\/strong> carriers had a 4.0% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity increased 4.2% year-on-year, and the load factor was 87.3% (down 0.2 ppt compared to July 2024).<\/p>\n North American<\/strong> carriers\u00a0saw a 2.4% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity increased 3.6% year-on-year, and the load factor was 88.4% (down 1.0 ppt compared to July 2024).<\/p>\n International traffic routes for the Americas were all positive except for traffic between North America and South America which declined 0.8%.<\/p>\n Middle Eastern<\/strong> carriers saw a 5.3% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity rose by \u00a05.6% year-on-year, and the load factor was 84.1% (down 0.2 ppt compared to July 2024). Middle East growth rebounded after the disruptions caused by the military conflict in June.<\/p>\n Latin American<\/strong> airlines saw a 9.3% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity climbed 11.3% year-on-year. The load factor was 85.8% (down 1.6 ppt compared to July 2024). Intra-regional traffic was particularly strong.<\/p>\n African <\/strong>airlines saw a 2.8% year-on-year increase in demand. Capacity was up 2.3% year-on-year. The load factor was 74.9% (up 0.4 ppt compared to July 2024). Traffic on routes between Africa and Asia had a notable surge.<\/p>\n Domestic Passenger Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n Domestic RPK rose 1.9% over July 2024 and load factor fell by 0.4 ppt to 85.2% on the back of a 2.4% capacity expansion. Brazil was once again the strongest performer. Japan\u2019s 81.4% load factor is a record high for July since at least the year 2000.<\/p>\n The post Airlines see momentum from strong northern summer season, latest IATA figures show<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A strong summer in the northern hemisphere saw the global airline sector achieve increased capacity and revenue despite a marginal dip in load factor. Latest figures released by IATA last week for July revealed growing year-on-year demand, particular for international flying. The global industry body reported that total demand (revenue passenger kilometres RPK), was up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}