»»Airline Traffic Report for July 2009
According to the report released by IATA about International airline traffic results for July 2009, passenger demand declined 2.9% compared to the same month in 2008.
International passenger load factors were 80.3%.
In June 2009 it was recorded a decline of 7.2% compared to the same month in 2008, as for the first seven month of 2009 the average decline was 6.8%.
The freight demand for July 2009, was down 11.3% compared to the same month in 2008; it also represent a relative improvement over the -16.5% recorded in June and the -19.3% average for the first seven months of the year. The Middle East is the only region recording a growth.
- Passenger (P) and freight (F) demand compared to July 2008 by region -
- Asia Pacific: (P) decline by 7.6% (big improvement respect to the -14.5% recorded in June); (F) decline by 9.5%
- European: (P) decline by 3.1%; (F) decline by 6.2%
- North American carriers: (P) decline by 3.2%; (F) decline by 14.6%
- Latin American: (P) decline by 3.5%; (F) decline by 1.2%
- African carriers: (P) decline 5.5%; (F) decline by 25.9%
- The Middle East: (P) 13.2% growth in July (slightly better than the 12.9% growth recorded in June); (F) decline by 1% growth.
