{"id":304247,"date":"2019-12-05T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304247"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:09:06","slug":"air-cargo-peak-season-off-to-slow-start-demand-down-3-5-in-october-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-cargo-peak-season-off-to-slow-start-demand-down-3-5-in-october-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Air cargo peak season off to slow start, demand down 3.5% in October: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Wednesday released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTKs) decreased by 3.5 per cent in October as compared to the same period in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>This marks a weak start to the traditional peak season for air cargo and the 12th consecutive month of year-on-year declines in freight volumes. <\/p>\n<p>Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs) rose by 2.2 per cent year-on-year in October 2019. Capacity growth has now outstripped demand growth for the 18th consecutive month. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, air cargo has suffered from the effects of the trade war between the United States and China, the deterioration in global trade and a broad-based slowing in economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Wednesday released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTKs) decreased by 3.5 per cent in October as compared to the same period in 2018. This marks a weak start to the traditional peak season for air cargo and the 12th consecutive month of year-on-year declines in freight volumes. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs) rose by 2.2 per cent year-on-year in October 2019. Capacity growth has now outstripped demand growth for the 18th consecutive month. Over the past year, air cargo has suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}