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This is good news for all airlines. IATA recently published the results of the airline industry's annual activity. Total traffic in 2022 (measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) has in fact increased by 64.4 % compared with 2021. This represents 68.5 % of pre-pandemic levels (2019). In December 2022, activity...

The near-universal recovery from the Covid pandemic has finally borne fruit in the air transport sector. According to IATA, the sector should return to profitability in 2023, after a year 2022 in which losses will be significantly reduced compared with 2020 and 2021. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), airlines should post a small...

Nigeria is a rich country, very rich, at least on paper. It is Africa's largest oil producer. In 2021, according to OPEC, Nigeria was producing 1.38 million barrels of crude oil a day. In July 2022, production even reached 1.8 million barrels. But the country...

Last March, at a conference on passenger service, IATA unveiled a brand new methodology for calculating CO2 emissions. This was the result of work undertaken not only with carriers - 20 airlines contributed - but also with aircraft manufacturers, organisations responsible for defining international standards and suppliers...

Many air transport experts are talking about "revenge" tourism in a post-Covid world. While WHO statements are more optimistic about the pandemic becoming an endemic, more and more countries are adopting a strategy of cohabitation with the covid virus. And the simplified entry rules are generating a lot of...

On 25 January, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) drew up a report on the year 2021 for air travel worldwide. Traffic actually picked up between 2020 and 2021. IATA notes that passenger demand, expressed in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), fell by 58.4 % compared with 2019....

September 11 2001 was a staggering event for the world. Anyone who lived through the event will remember the staggering, surreal images of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the devastation that followed. According to the Director General of IATA, Willie Walsh, as the...

In July, passenger growth, expressed in RPK (revenue/passenger/km), was up by almost 130% on last year, according to the latest official figures from IATA. But the statistics can be misleading. After all, this growth is still at half-mast compared with 2019. The improvement is certainly visible compared with the first few months of...

The transatlantic axis should soon be back in service, or at least with a return to higher volumes of travel. The European Union has just announced that travellers from the United States will soon be accepted on its territory, probably during the summer. The 27 Member States will accept, unconditionally, all those who have been vaccinated...

The evaporation of international air traffic to the African continent over several months will leave its mark. Overall, even with the recovery in the second half of 2020, the region is unlikely to have attracted more than 45 million passengers over the year, compared with 155 million in 2019. Worse still, the return to this...

The "Travel Pass" club continues to expand to new horizons: a few days after the announcement of its adoption by the Singaporean authorities, it is now the turn of Latin America to experiment with the solution promoted by IATA. Iberia intends to be at the forefront, with a trial launched on the Madrid-Montevideo route. The...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling for greater deployment of antigen tests to support the resumption of international travel. According to a report commissioned by IATA and conducted by OXERA-Edge Health, the best antigen tests, such as BinaxNOW, rival PCR tests in terms of quality, with processing times that are "100 times faster".

Business and leisure travellers are waiting for just one thing: to board a plane again, and governments must quickly take the necessary measures to allow them to do so. This is the message sent by IATA with the publication of a survey conducted in mid-February among 4,700 travellers in 11 countries, including France....

ICC AOK pass Profile: Announced in May, AOK pass is the first digital health certification solution to be launched. This application is offered by International SOS and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), in association with the Swiss company SGS, one of the world leaders in inspection, analysis and...

For those who haven't already experienced it, it's worth bearing in mind that business travel 'after' will be nothing like it was before. Nomadic professionals will find themselves back on the road again, with constraints they are no longer used to, particularly when travelling within Europe. "I travel regularly between Amsterdam and Geneva. Before Covid,...

IATA has just drawn up a review of its members' activity in 2020. The association, which brings together 290 airlines - representing 82% of all capacity - recorded a 75.6% drop in international passenger demand compared with 2019. Expressed in revenue/passenger/km (RPK), the decline is 85% internationally. The decline is...

The IATA Travel Pass allows Emirates Airlines and Etihad Airways passengers to create a "digital passport". This will make it possible to check whether pre-departure tests or vaccinations meet the requirements imposed at the destination. Passengers will also be able to share test and vaccination certificates...

IATA has just revealed in a study that Covid has profoundly changed air connectivity in the world's major cities. The number of city-to-city connections has declined from over 19,300 to fewer than 6,800 in April 2020. The pandemic has led to an upsurge in...

To restore a certain degree of normality to air transport, Alexandre de Juniac, Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), explained during a media briefing that all passengers on international routes should be tested for covid-19 before departure. IATA is calling for a rapid solution that is accessible to all....