Marginal growth in air traffic for November 2012: IATA
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) traffic results for November 2012 showed improvement in passenger demand.
Air travel was 4.6% higher compared to November 2011, up on the October result of 2.9%. Passenger capacity rose 3.2% and load factor improved one percentage point to 77.3% compared to the year-ago period.
“The positive conditions are aligning to see a return to growth in 2013. In 2013 we expect that passenger traffic will increase by 4.5% worldwide,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and CEO.
Compared to October, November passenger traffic grew 0.6%. The majority of growth came from domestic markets, particularly China. However for Middle East airlines’ demand expanded 10.5% compared to November 2011, continuing exceptional growth throughout the year. However, this was outstripped by a capacity increase of 11.2% which resulted in the load factor falling 0.5% points to 73.5%. Month-on-month growth was 0.3%.