Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Recent Increases Reflect Uptick In Air Services Demand
The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry
trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, issued a report
Tuesday showing passenger revenue, based on a sample group of
carriers, rose 1.4 percent in January versus the same month in
2009, reversing 14 consecutive months of declines.
Approximately 0.4 percent fewer passengers traveled on U.S.
airlines which contributed to the report in January, while the
average price to fly one mile rose 0.6 percent - the first such
increase since November of 2008. Growth was strongest on
trans-Atlantic routes, where passenger revenue rose 3.4
percent.
U.S. airlines saw cargo traffic, as measured in cargo revenue
ton miles, rise 17 percent year over year (12 percent domestically
and 23 percent internationally) in December 2009, driven primarily
by increased international trade. January 2010 cargo data is not
yet available.
For the full year 2009, cargo traffic declined 11 percent
compared to 2008. The decline in cargo traffic from 2008 to 2009
was the largest on record, eclipsing the decline observed from 2000
to 2001. "The modest uptick in passenger revenue and the solid
increase in cargo volumes are promising signs that air-transport
demand may be at the beginning of a long-awaited recovery," said
ATA President and CEO James C. May.
Annually, commercial aviation helps drive more than $1 trillion
in U.S. economic activity and nearly 11 million U.S. jobs. On a
daily basis, U.S. airlines operate nearly 26,000 flights in 80
countries, using more than 6,000 aircraft to carry an average of
two million passengers and 50,000 tons of cargo.
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