{"id":872,"date":"2013-08-05T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2013\/08\/05\/72797351125236\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T10:36:00","slug":"72797351125236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Middle East air travel marks growth: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Recent statistics reported by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) stated that emerging markets were the strongest performers, particularly the Middle East (11.0%) and Africa (10.8%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">he overall growth year-on-year was 6.0% in terms of passenger demand. This growth was fuelled with positive performance from Asia-Pacific airlines which were responsible for half of the increase in RPKs from May to June. The European airlines also reported a second consecutive month of growth with 4.8%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&ldquo;Growth in the BRICS economies, including China, is slowing. And oil prices remain high. The industry is still on track to make US$4.00 per passenger this year for a global net profit of US$12.7 billion. But there is little margin for error and even a small change in the second half of the year could shift the outlook significantly,&rdquo; said Tony Tyler, IATA&rsquo;s director general and CEO.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">International air travel expanded strongly, up by 5.9% in June compared to a year ago. June capacity grew in line with this (5.7%) resulting in a June international load factor of 81.4%. Middle East carriers expanded 12.1% compared to a year ago. This was slightly below the 13.4% capacity expansion resulting in a load factor of 78.4%. The demand for new routes to emerging markets in Africa and Asia has fuelled the growth of the Gulf hubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">African airlines benefitted from strong domestic economic growth in key markets such as Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to post growth of 11.2%. Although African airlines&rsquo; load factors (70.7%) still lag the global average by around 10%, they have made consistent progress to close the gap this year, and in June, improved their load factor by almost three percentage points compared to June 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent statistics reported by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) stated that emerging markets were the strongest performers, particularly the Middle East (11.0%) and Africa (10.8%). he overall growth year-on-year was 6.0% in terms of passenger demand. This growth was fuelled with positive performance from Asia-Pacific airlines which were responsible for half of the increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---tourist-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}