{"id":120227,"date":"2022-01-31T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=120227"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:55:57","slug":"best-2021-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/best-2021-iata","title":{"rendered":"A better year for air transport in 2021 according to IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 January, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) drew up its assessment of the year 2021 for air travel worldwide. <strong>Traffic actually picked up between 2020 and 2021<\/strong>. IATA notes that <strong>passenger demand<\/strong>expressed in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), <strong>decreased by 58.4 % compared to 2019<\/strong>. But <strong>it fell by 65.8% between 2019 and 2020<\/strong>. December also saw a strong recovery, with the number of international passengers (RPK) up by 182.8% compared with December 2020. This increase even peaked at 228% for Europe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/reprise-aerien-juillet-iata-20210901.html\/\">IATA<\/a> prefers to refer to the figures for 2019, when traffic levels are considered normal. 2019 is in fact the last pre-Covid year. <strong>International passenger demand in 2021 remained 75.5 % below 2019 levels.<\/strong>. Capacity, measured in available seat kilometres, fell by 65.3 %. The load factor fell by 24 points to 58.0 %.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-un-effet-omicron-en-fin-d-annee\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">An omicron effect at the end of the year<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, domestic demand held up better last year<\/strong>. Compared with 2019, <strong>it fell by 'only' 28.2%<\/strong> with capacity down 19.2 %. The load factor fell by 9.3 points to 74.3 %. IATA notes a continued improvement in traffic levels. In December 2021, total passenger traffic in RPK was only 45.1 % lower than in the same month of 2019, with capacity down 37.6 % on December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, IATA has recorded a drop in ticket sales since November as the omicron variant takes off<\/strong>. The number of tickets purchased for future air travel thus represented only 45% of the 2019 level during the first fortnight of January. This figure had reached 56% in November. Without omicron, IATA estimated that traffic in December should have been only 43.5% lower than in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/iata-benefices-compagnies-aeriennes-2023-20221206.html\/\" data-id=\"137601\">IATA now forecasts a return to profit in 2023<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Overall travel demand has strengthened in 2021. This trend continued in December despite travel restrictions due to omicron. This speaks volumes about passengers' strong confidence and desire to travel. <strong><em>The challenge for 2022 is to strengthen this trust by standardising travel.<\/em><\/strong>. While international travel is still far from normal in many parts of the world, the momentum is moving in the right direction. <strong>Recently, France, the UK and Switzerland announced a significant relaxation of their measures. We hope that other countries will follow their example.<\/strong>. Particularly in Asia, where several key markets remain virtually isolated\", said <strong>Willie Walsh, Director General of IATA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In detail by region, IATA notes that Africa and the Americas have been the most resilient in terms of international traffic in 2021, while the Asia-Pacific region has remained the most affected. Europe occupies a median position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jakarta-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jakarta-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jakarta-airport.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jakarta-airport-300x182-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jakarta-airport-768x465-derived.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Asia continues to lag behind in the recovery, as here in Jakarta (Photo: LC)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-asie-pacifique\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Asia-Pacific<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asia-Pacific airlines' international traffic plunged 93.2% in 2021 compared to 2019<\/strong>. In December 2021, it was still 87.5 % lower than in December 2019. Capacity for the year as a whole fell by 84.9 % compared with 2019. The load factor fell by 44.3 points to 36.5 %.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-moyen-orient\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Middle East<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly, the Middle East was the second region of the world most affected by the fall in traffic. <strong>Annual airline passenger volumes were 71.6 % lower than in 2019.<\/strong>. Annual capacity fell by 57.7 % and the load factor dropped 25.1 points to 51.1 %. However, the recovery at the end of the year was solid. In December, passenger traffic in RPK was only 51.2 % below 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-europe\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Europe<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>European carriers have seen their traffic fall by 67.6 % in 2021 compared with 2019<\/strong>. Available capacity fell by 57.4 % and load factor decreased by 20.6 percentage points to 65.0 %. For the month of December, traffic slipped by 41.5 % compared with December 2019, an improvement on the year-on-year decline of 43.5 % recorded in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ameriques\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Americas<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>North American airline traffic for the year as a whole fell by 65.6 % compared with 2019<\/strong>. Capacity fell by 52.0 %. The load factor plunged 23.8 points to 60.2 %. Demand in December was 41.7 % lower than in the same month of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latin American airlines recorded a 66.9 % drop in traffic compared with 2019.<\/strong>. Capacity was down by 62.2 %. The load factor was 72.6%. This represented a fall of 10.2 points compared to 2019. <strong>But this is still the highest occupancy rate in the industry.<\/strong>. Traffic fell by 40.4 % for the month of December compared with December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-afrique\"><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Africa<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International traffic on African airlines fell by 65.2 % last year compared with 2019<\/strong>. It is <strong>the best performance in the world<\/strong>. Capacity fell by 56.7 %. At the same time, load factor reached 57.3%, a decline of 14.1 points. However, the performance of African airlines deteriorated towards the end of the year. Demand for the month of December was 60.5 % lower than in 2019. This was due to the impact of government restrictions on travel in response to omicron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, IATA remains relatively optimistic. The association believes that the omicron variant should have a relatively limited impact. <strong>IATA believes that the recovery should be perceptible from March onwards...<\/strong> if no new variant comes along to upset his prognosis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/iata-resultats-passagers-2022-20230213.html\/\" data-id=\"142597\">IATA: 64.4% more air passengers by 2022<\/a><\/p><\/aside>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic in 2021 has recovered well compared with 2020, the first year of the covid pandemic, according to IATA. 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