{"id":376582,"date":"2020-10-03T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376582"},"modified":"2020-10-03T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:29:25","slug":"global-air-passenger-traffic-to-dip-by-66-this-year-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-air-passenger-traffic-to-dip-by-66-this-year-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Global air passenger traffic to dip by 66% this year: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA : The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has downgraded its traffic forecast for 2020 to reflect a weaker-than-expected recovery as evidenced by a dismal end to the summer travel season in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>IATA now expects full-year 2020 traffic to be down 66% compared to 2019. The previous estimate was for a 63% decline.August passenger demand continued to be hugely depressed against normal levels with revenue passenger kilometres down 75.3% compared to August 2019. This was only slightly improved compared to the 79.5% annual contraction in July.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic markets continued to outperform international markets in terms of recovery although most remained substantially down on a year ago. August capacity based on available seat kilometres was down 63.8% compared to a year ago and load factor plunged 27.2 points to an all-time low for August of 58.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA : The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has downgraded its traffic forecast for 2020 to reflect a weaker-than-expected recovery as evidenced by a dismal end to the summer travel season in the northern hemisphere. IATA now expects full-year 2020 traffic to be down 66% compared to 2019. The previous estimate was for a 63% decline.August passenger demand continued to be hugely depressed against normal levels with revenue passenger kilometres down 75.3% compared to August 2019. This was only slightly improved compared to the 79.5% annual contraction in July. Domestic markets continued to outperform international markets in terms of recovery [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376582","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=376582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}