IATA notes traffic improvement

IATA (International Air Transport Association) has published its members’ passenger figures for January which show that the airline situation as regards passenger numbers is improving.  Compared with the same months from last year demand was up 6.4%.  Against this improving figure a 1.2% increase in passenger capacity in January pushed load factors to 75.9% (up from the 72.2% recorded for January 2009).  International cargo demand showed a dramatic 28.3% improvement with only a 3.7% increase in capacity.  This pushed the cargo load factor to 49.6% which is a significant change from the 40.1% recorded in January 2009. www.iata.org

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