Over the coming months the focus of attention must be on Europe.
Data Summary
No Airports
Traffic Share %
Change %
259
72
4.4
International traffic, based on the 254 airports so far available for the month of November, are now showing a (0.2%) fall against November 2008.
Confidence needs to be qualified, as in the case of the total passenger numbers, by the knowledge that the 2008 comparison base was so severely depressed.
The Last 13 Months
% change
Jan
-6.6
Feb
-8.3
Mar
-11.7
Apr
-2.2
May
-9.4
Jun
-7.3
Jul
-3.5
Aug
-2.7
Sep
-1.8
Oct
-0.7
Nov
2.8
Dec
6.8
Jan
4.4
The Regional Summary
No Airports
Traffic Share %
Change %
Africa
0
0
0.0
Asia/Pacific
7
9
12.6
Europe
30
10
10.2
Latin America
20
13
-5.3
North America
1
1
6.0
Total
259
72
4.4
There are just three features of importance:
◊ Asia/Pacific is continuing upwards with a 13.9% rise from 33% of airports in the region
◊ Europe is arithmetically dominant; it is starting to pull back but progress is slow
◊ in Latin America, where reporting is heavily influenced by Brazil, a traffic decline of just (0.2%) has been recorded from airports covering 44% of the total Latin American market.
