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IATA: Increase in aviation demand continues in 2013

IATA: Increase in aviation demand continues in 2013

Officials at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have released global air travel demand statistics for January showing a continuation of the uptick in passenger travel that began at the end of 2012. Overall, demand was up 2.7 per cent on the previous January which is slightly ahead of the 2.2 per cent expansion in capacity.

IATA: Aviation needs a global agreement on market-based measures

IATA: Aviation needs a global agreement on market-based measures

28 February 2013 Press Release Airline News Organisations & Operators

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for governments to agree on a global approach to market-based measures (MBMs) to help aviation manage the 2% of global manmade carbon emissions for which it is responsible. IATA also stressed the need for governments and industry to align on all four pillars of the aviation industry’s strategy on climate change: investment in new technology, more efficient operations, better infrastructure and positive economic measure or MBMs.

IATA report: Securing the air cargo supply chain

IATA report: Securing the air cargo supply chain

10 February 2013 Press Release Airline News Organisations & Operators

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) identified four priorities to make air cargo more secure and urged stakeholders to move forward on the implementation of the Secure Freight principles. Secure Freight was initiated by IATA to promote global security standards in order to facilitate safe, secure and efficient operations of air cargo.

IATA: Upswing in cargo brightens cautious demand outlook

IATA: Upswing in cargo brightens cautious demand outlook

12 January 2013 Press Release Airline News Organisations & Operators

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released traffic results for November 2012 which showed an improvement in both passenger and air freight demand. Air travel was 4.6% higher compared to November 2011, up on the October result of 2.9%. Air freight volumes edged up 1.6% over the same period after declining 2.6% in October, year to year. Passenger capacity rose 3.2% and load factor improved one percentage point to 77.3% compared to the year-ago period.

IATA expects 3.6bn passengers annually by 2016

IATA expects 3.6bn passengers annually by 2016

7 December 2012 Airline News

The International Air Transport Association has released an industry traffic forecast showing airlines are expect to welcome some 3.6 billion passengers in 2016. That is about 800 million more than the 2.8 billion passengers carried by airlines in 2011.