{"id":381754,"date":"2025-01-30T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=381754"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:22:24","slug":"air-passenger-demand-reaches-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/air-passenger-demand-reaches-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Air passenger demand reaches record high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Global passenger air traffic reached a record in 2024, rising 10.4% compared to 2023, according to the period data released on Thursday (30) by airlines group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IATA<\/a>. Compared to 2019, the year immediately preceding the impacts of the pandemic, the expansion was 3.8% in revenue passenger kilometers, a measure of the volume of passengers carried by an airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Middle East revenue passenger kilometer grew by 9.5% in 2024 compared to 2023. In Africa it increased by 10.4%, and in Latin America by 7.8. The Middle East ended the year with a 9.4% share of passenger travel, followed by 5.3% from Latin America, and 2.2% from Africa. In Brazil there was a 4.6% increase in domestic passenger traffic. Globally, this expansion was 5.7%. International passenger traffic increased by 13.6% compared to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c2024 made it absolutely clear that people want to travel. With 10.4% demand growth, travel reached record numbers domestically and internationally. Airlines met that strong demand with record efficiency,\u201d said Willie Walsh, IATA\u2019s Director General, who highlighted that an average 83.5% of all seats on offer were filled. According to IATA data, total capacity was up 8.7% compared to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walsh also said there is every indication that demand for travel will continue to grow in 2025, albeit at a more moderate pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/direct-flight-to-boost-brazil-morocco-tourism\/\">Direct flight to boost Brazil-Morocco tourism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-381734\">Fernando Fraz\u00e3o\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to airlines group IATA, the global increase was 10.4% compared to 2023 and 3.8% compared to pre-pandemic 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":381734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[6907,10840,12959],"class_list":{"0":"post-381754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-air-transport","9":"tag-air-travel-en","10":"tag-iata-en"},"wps_subtitle":"According to airlines group IATA, the global increase was 10.4% compared to 2023 and 3.8% compared to pre-pandemic 2019.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}