{"id":429070,"date":"2021-08-05T08:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429070"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:48:38","slug":"airline-industry-statistics-confirm-2020-was-worst-year-on-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-industry-statistics-confirm-2020-was-worst-year-on-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline industry statistics confirm 2020 was worst year on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) publication with performance figures for 2020 demonstrating the devastating effects on global air transport during that year of Covid-19 crisis.A total of 1.8 billion passengers flew in 2020, a decrease of 60.2 per cent compared to the 4.5 billion who flew in 2019.Industry-wide air travel demand measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) dropped by 65.9 per cent year-on-year. <\/p>\n<p>International passenger demand (RPKs) decreased by 75.6 per cent compared to the year prior. Domestic air passenger demand (RPKs) dropped by 48.8 per cent compared to 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) publication with performance figures for 2020 demonstrating the devastating effects on global air transport during that year of Covid-19 crisis.A total of 1.8 billion passengers flew in 2020, a decrease of 60.2 per cent compared to the 4.5 billion who flew in 2019.Industry-wide air travel demand measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) dropped by 65.9 per cent year-on-year. International passenger demand (RPKs) decreased by 75.6 per cent compared to the year prior. Domestic air passenger demand (RPKs) dropped by 48.8 per cent compared to 2019.<\/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-429070","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\/429070","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=429070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}