Soft airfreight market casts doubt over H2 peak
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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 pmNeed 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 pmHello 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 amGood analysis. Figure out 15 ABC 747 out of the game as well.