Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

Senior correspondent

Ian Goold

Short-haul carriers in Europe have enjoyed “very healthy” growth this year, as passenger volumes and traffic far outpace seating increases and capacity, according to the ERA. Compared with last year’s first half, traveler numbers grew by 7.7 percent in the first six months of this year against a 5.3-percent increase in seats, said ERA director general Mike Ambrose.
In the same period, scheduled revenue passenger miles rose 9.7 percent alongside an increase of 7.8 percent in available seat miles, raising passenger load factor to 63.3 percent across the fleet. The first half ended with a record June figure of 68.1 percent, according to the ERA.
Meanwhile, average sector distance flown has risen “significantly,” climbing almost 3.5 percent to 352 miles, while typical aircraft size has increased to some 72 seats, factors that ERA suggests reflect greater numbers of turbofan-powered aircraft, which now make up some 61 percent of the fleet. Sector flight time averaged 1 hour, 13 minutes.

ERA report: Healthy Growth for ERA Members

Short-haul carriers in Europe have enjoyed “very healthy” growth this year, as passenger volumes and traffic far outpace seating increases and capacity, ac

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