With
many major international airports in Europe and
North America reporting
lacklustre figures in passenger traffic in July, overall growth in
global passenger markets slowed to +2% year-over-year.
Counterbalancing
the slowdown in these markets is the continued strong demand in
emerging markets. The major airports of Asia-Pacific, the Middle East
and Latin America-Caribbean posted robust year-over-year gains.
Beijing (PEK), Dubai (DXB)
and São Paulo (GRU) achieved growth of +6.1%, +6.0% and +9.0%
respectively.
Freight
markets suffered a decline of -2% in traffic volumes in July. Whereas
many Asian airports experienced a buoyant rise in year-over-year
passenger traffic, the opposite is occurring in the freight market.
Hong Kong (HKG) and Shanghai (PVG) saw declines of -1.8% and -7.1%
respectively. All but Africa and the Middle East, observed declines
in freight traffic. Johannesburg (JNB) and Abu Dhabi (AUH) had
double-digit gains of +13.0% and +27.8%.
ACI
World’s Economics Director Rafael Echevarne commented, “Regional
trends in air transport markets continue to be mixed reflecting the
combination of resilient demand from emerging markets and the
slowdown of European and American economies. The net result is a
modest overall growth rate in passenger traffic for the month of
July. Air freight, on the other hand, is clearly in a contraction
phase as business confidence wanes in parallel.”
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|
July 2012
Over July 2011
|
Year
to date
2012
|
12-month
rolling
year
|
|
PaxFlash
|
|||
|
International
passenger
|
2.9
|
5.7
|
5.4
|
|
Domestic
passenger
|
1.8
|
3.7
|
3.4
|
|
Totalpassenger
|
2.2
|
4.6
|
4.2
|
|
FreightFlash
|
|||
|
International
freight
|
(1.7)
|
(1.4)
|
(2.2)
|
|
Domestic
freight
|
(1.9)
|
(0.3)
|
(0.8)
|
|
Totalfreight
|
(2.1)
|
(1.4)
|
(2.0)
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