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Recent air transport statistics are heartening: not only are passengers back, but cargo is in recovery too, according to the figures just released by IATA for December 2023 and the full year. Passengers (in RPKs) were up 25% in the month – and just 5.9% ...

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  • Pichuiyer Balasubramanian

    February 20, 2024 at 3:57 pm

    Need a clarification on this: Quote ‘By way of comparison, the capacity split on the East Asia to/from Europe market was 40/60 in favour of belly capacity in 2019; as of late 2023, the split was about 60/40 in favour of freighters’ – Unquote. Is it not just the same, i.e., 40 in the case of belly capacity and 60 for freighter in both cases?

    • Alex Lennane

      February 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm

      Hello Bala! Yes, perhaps oddly worded and I will edit, but 2019: 40% was freighter, 60% was belly. 2023: 40% belly, 60% freighter.

  • Ivan Kozlov

    February 21, 2024 at 8:58 am

    Good analysis. Figure out 15 ABC 747 out of the game as well.

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