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Recovery of Airline Traffic in Asia-Pac Still Lagging

Passenger traffic lingers at low levels in the region due to continuing travel restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19.

A Singapore Airlines Airbus A330 crosses Changi Airport's Southcross Bridge over Airport Boulevard.

By Cathy Buyck • Contributor - Europe

February 15, 2022

Asia’s rapid growth in the commercial aviation sector in recent decades has been the envy of many airline and airport managers in other parts of the world. Asia-Pacific countries jointly accounted for nearly 35 percent of the world’s revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) in 2019, up from 24 percent in 2004, and six of the region’s airports ranked among the world’s 15 busiest airports by passenger throughput traffic compared to just two in 2004. But Covid-19 has taken the shine off the aviation powerhouse, at least temporary. North America re-emerged as the leading region in passenger traffic in 2020, with a 32.6 percent share of industry-wide RPKs, compared with 27.5 percent share for Asia-Pacific airlines, International Air Transport Association (IATA) data shows. Asia-Pacific airlines’ international passenger traffic, measured in RPKs, plunged 80.3 percent in 2020 compared with 2019, marking the deepest decline for any region.

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