Global air passenger traffic continued to grow in October 2023, with the total traffic reaching 98.2 per cent of pre-Covid levels, The Hindu Businessline (HBL) reported, citing data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is an association of airlines across the world.
Airline traffic is measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs. The RPK in October 2023 was 31.2 per cent up compared to the RPK in October 2022, the report said.
The HBL report said that the global recovery was led by Asia-Pacific airlines, which registered an 80.3 per cent increase in traffic for the October 2023 period. Moreover, the capacity of the airlines was also up 72.5 per cent and the load factor increased by 3.6 percentage points to 82.9 per cent, the newspaper reported.
