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Forecast Update: March 2024
The latest forecasts have today been uploaded to client sites.
The Chinese appetite for domestic travel over the Lunar New Year holiday has hit a n.....
Majority of January Airports ahead of 2019
626 January airports are already on the Air4casts system with their passenger actuals from last month. With over half of them posting results ahead of.....
December Traffic: Mixed Messages at the Close of the Year
The Air4casts data service focuses on December data from the airlines and airports.
Ryanair and Wizz Air Surge Ahead of 2019
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Forecast Update: December 2023
The December forecast revision contains some elements of note relating, for the most part, to the immediate outlook for international passengers which.....
The Luxury Traveller in First Class
While any announcement of the death of First Class travel is premature, there are certainly challenges ahead.
✓ the longer-term context.....
Forecast Update May 2023
The pace of recovery, and especially in Asia/Pacific, is certainly accelerating as the forecast to forecast comparison indicates:
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Forecast Update March 2023
This month’s forecast revision indicates an acceleration in the rates of recovery when compared with the outlook produced a month ago.
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Latin American Airports Smash 2019 Results
833 airports have so far declared their January 2023 passenger actuals and together they cover 85% of expected global traffic for the month.
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Spectacular January Airport Results
With January 2023 passenger actuals from 480 airports already declared, today’s traffic bulletin analyses performance compared to January 2019.
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Forecast Update February 2023
Today’s update, and looking primarily at the full year 2024, is hardly different from the projections developed a month ago and when those proje.....
Chart of the Day - The Asia/Pacific Bounce Back
December results from the region’s biggest airports show some big improvements with airports as diverse as Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney now lead.....
The China International Recovery; January Latest
The recovery is happening but is best described as restrained.
Departing Flights to Sunday 22 January
The latest data for internatio.....
2023 China Passenger Forecast
The first of the monthly updated 2023 forecast sets has today been uploaded to client sites.
CHINA FOCUS
Necessarily a focus of interest.....
2023 International Passenger Forecast
There is growing excitement about the prospects for an accelerated recovery in Asia/Pacific international traffic.
In the case of Hong Ko.....
October International PAX - Asia/Pacific and the USA
Over 1000 airports are now on the Air4casts system with October PAX actuals. Today’s traffic bulletin examines the contrasting internation.....
Changes in China Policy: Daily International Flights
Continuing this week’s Air4casts is reporting on five important traffic indicators with the third in the series:
Daily Domestic Travel - Read.....
Two October Setbacks for Travel Retail
The last lingering hope that the Communist Party of China might, in the foreseeable future, move towards a more liberal travel policy for its citizens.....
Air Passenger Forecasts Q4 2022 into Q1 2023
Air4casts is uploading its regular monthly re-forecast for 1500 airports and two questions dominate the short-term:
Question 1: What effe.....
Hong Kong Gears Up for Travel Surge
With mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals to Hong Kong now a thing of the past today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the fast moving changes to.....
Is China on the Rebound?
Data, published Friday last, produces some very welcome positives.
Daily Flights
- end September numbers show flight departure.....
The Recovery in Asia/Pacific
In the month of August international passenger numbers across all available airports in Asia/Pacific stood at 32% of the August 2019 level, up from 11.....
The Global Recovery: International Passengers
August data confirms the slowdown in the post Covid recovery:
✓ internationals started the year on just 39% of 2019
✓ last mo.....
Forecast Update August 2022
The latest monthly forecasts have today been uploaded to client sites.
Europe and North America This Year and Next
The rate of recover.....
July Forecast Review
This forecast, for both 2022 and 2023, is below the projection generated a month ago. Of itself this is of importance but perhaps of more importance i.....
June Forecast Update
Subscriber interest this month is likely to be focused on airports in the Western Hemisphere since there is an inevitable acceptance among subscribers.....
The European Recovery Gathers Pace
The April results for 250 international airports in Europe definitely point the way to summer traffic levels which risk being at least as good as in 2.....
May Forecast Update: Data and Expectations
With the March actuals from 1150 airports now available, a clear view of April will be available by the middle of this month although complete results.....
March Traffic Update
Today Air4casts has March departure and arrival data for 557 airports across the six regions. Taking international and domestic passengers together th.....
Forecast Update April 2022
Today’s upload of the latest forecast updates is, in global terms, little different from the view taken just a month ago.
There are differences.....
Forecast Update March 2022
The latest monthly forecasts for almost 1600 global airports and 200 travelling nationalities have today been uploaded to client sites.
Notwithstan.....
Ukraine - The March Downsides
In all of the misery and chaos that is Ukraine it is perhaps timely to enquire as to the possible effects on air travel in the short-term and specific.....
Omicron hits January Internationals
There are today over 600 airports on the Air4casts system with passenger actuals for January 2022.
Of those 446 have declared their inter.....
Recovery USA: International Focus
December data, available through Air4casts, for 175 international airports in the USA shows passenger levels at 63% of the 2019 level.
Th.....
Omicron Flight Cancellations: Apparent or Real?
Over the holiday period there was a surge in breathless press reports, many of them beginning in the USA, pointing to a an unprecedented level of flig.....
Dubai Airport Races to Second Place Globally
Over 1000 airports with October PAX actuals are now on the Air4casts system. Today’s bulletin focuses on the top global international airports.
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Dubai Posts Highest PAX Numbers in 18 Months
In an encouraging sign of the gathering pace of recovery Dubai airport’s September PAX were the highest since the start of the pandemic.
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Monitoring the International Recovery: September Airport Actuals
Under normal circumstances it would have been expected that the September returns from the international airports would have shown a predictable seaso.....
Forecast Update October 2021
The Major Change: Europe
The European recovery is now well under way and the changes in this forecast set, compared with that developed just a mont.....
Latest September Forecast Update
The latest September forecasts have today been uploaded to client sites.
Ryanair, for the month of October, is forecasting to sel.....
Global June/July Growth Hits 44%
Today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the July on June international air passenger growth in the context of the seasonal uplift over each of the p.....
Forecast Revisions; July Update to 2025
There are brighter spots in the international sector. There is also continued development in domestic travel but there are, without doubt, at leas.....
980 International Airports with May Data
Air4casts’ subscribers may now access the May international actuals for some 980 airports and:
✓ broadly the news is good
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Brightening Skies for May Internationals
International airports declaring for June, and today there are 161 of them, are indicating departures and arrivals up 23% on last month:
While .....
Top Departure Terminals in June
Air4casts examines the top terminals in June for both international and domestic passenger departures.
Throughout the pandemic there have b.....
Domestic Passenger Forecast; June Update
Air4casts examines the top terminals in June for both international and domestic passenger departures.
Throughout the pandemic there have b.....
April Actuals Encouragingly Ahead of March
Almost 550 airports from around the world have reported their latest actuals for the month of April.
In the key Trave.....
May Forecast Update
The latest May forecasts for 1500 airports have today been uploaded to client sites. Today's Air4casts bulletin examines the outlook by region.....
March Forecast Update
The revised passenger forecasts, uploaded to subscribers’ websites today, represent no more than a modest change on the outlook develo.....
Will Vaccinations Hold the Key?
Hard to argue that they will not but harder still to predict the sorts of release mechanisms which will exist and where.
It is quite possib.....
Forecast Update February
That there continues to be substantial pent-up demand for international travel has, from the evidence, never been in doubt.
Europ.....
The December Spurt and its Significance for 2021
While Q1 of this year will be, in all but a very few areas disappointing to say the least, the December record for international air passengers of.....
Good News from the USA
From the 150 airports who have already declared their international passenger data for the month of November there is:
✓ undoubtedl.....
Air Travel Trends in 2021
The answers to just two simple questions will say it all:
✓ how strong will any recovery be next year and
✓ under what condition.....
Positive News from November Flight Data
There are important regional pockets which continue to suggest that the single largest impediment to the recovery of air travel is the policies of.....
November Departures Give Grounds for Optimism, Europe Apart
International departures for the first two weeks of this month do confirm that, in five out of the six regions of the world, a recovery is under w.....
September Air Departures Show Dramatic Shifts
Today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the prospects for domestic and international air travel in light of the latest September airport passenger d.....
Covid Plays Havoc with Airport Rankings
Today’s Air4casts bulletin assesses the July air passenger performance of the world’s two largest economies.
All data comes direct from.....
August Air Traffic
Today's Air4casts bulletin reports on some good news for international air travel in August and early September. The data comes directly from the .....
Last Week: European Recovery Continues
Based on the total number of flights for airports in Europe for the week ending Friday last, the 21st August:
✓ departures and arrivals had recov.....
July Internationals; Top 10 Reporting Airports
July’s top ten international PAX performers are, without exception, European for the reasons that:
✓ there is a recovery of sorts get.....
July Passenger Actuals Double in a Month
July passenger actuals for 288 airports, covering both international and domestic passenger flows, are now available on the Air4casts’ servers.....
China: Domestic Routes Will Lead the Recovery
For the past two months Air4casts has measured the effect of all the travel restrictions, flight cancellations and border closures on the internationa.....
Coronavirus Airport Rankings
The Air4casts Coronavirus module updates the 2020 monthly forecasts by airport and nationality every day to take into account each new hard piece of d.....
Coronavirus and the Chinese Traveller Forecast
Air4casts has today revised its China passenger forecasts for the month of February based on the scantest of hard data.
In summar.....