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Almost There - South Korea Hits 96% of 2019
With South Korea’s March airport passenger actuals already uploaded for clients in the daily updated Airports 1500 module, today’s Air4cas.....
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.....
India's Sparkling January Performance
All of India’s airports have now declared their January passenger actuals and the results are excellent.
Domestic air travel in January was 4.....
Year of the Dragon Breaks all Hainan Records
The best Chinese New Year since records began is the message from Hainan’s biggest airport, Haikou Meilan. Passenger numbers at the airport this.....
The Luxury Traveller: South Koreans Spend Most
According to a recent study by Morgan Stanley South Koreans are now the world’s biggest spenders on luxury goods.
The inv.....
Middle East Beats 2019
Airports Council International recently went public with some thoughts about the problems besetting the industry. For readers not familiar with ACI it.....
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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Tracking the Chinese Traveller
With Chinese outbound travel gaining strength Air4casts will, over the coming weeks, analyse each of the key Chinese destination markets.
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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.....
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.....
Hainan Year of the Rabbit Travel Just 13% Below 2019…and Catching up Fast
Last week’s data from Hainan’s biggest airport show passenger numbers soaring past half a million in the crucial run-up to Chinese New Yea.....
China’s Domestic Travel Takes Off
What a difference a week makes. While international air travel out of China has remained quiet since the 8th January Covid rules relaxation, dom.....
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.....
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.....
Japan’s Changing Airport Nationality Mix
From 11 October foreign tourists will again be able to visit Japan without a visa and without using a travel agency. Today’s Air4casts bulletin .....
August Fast Track European Airports
As of 13 September 140 European airports have already declared their August international PAX numbers. Clients can access them in the Airports 1500 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.....
Singapore Hits 50% of 2019 in June
With 1000 airports already on the Air4casts system with June PAX actuals today’s traffic bulletin focuses on the international air travel recove.....
European Summer: June Data Points the Way
Almost 300 European airports have so far declared their June passenger results.
They are 13% points higher than in May prompting the im.....
Asia/Pacific: May Internationals
For the 22 countries in Asia/Pacific, May international airport passenger numbers are:
✓ 22% up on April, but still only
✓ 24% of .....
50 European Airports Smash 2019
260 European airports have already reported their May international PAX actuals and over 50 have broken through the May 2019 barrier.
The.....
China’s June Revival
After 3 months of rapid decline China’s domestic air travel market is beginning to emerge from its lockdown induced torpor.
Daily d.....
US Internationals: May Actuals
Because US airports are now among the fastest in the world to declare their international actuals:
✓ in fact data for 174 May airport.....
Asia/Pacific April International Recovery Index
Hard evidence for an international recovery across airports in Asia/Pacific is growing monthly.
The market is two-speed:
✓ in the .....
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.....
Asia/Pacific; Internationals in March
International actuals in March brought good news.
Air4casts is presenting the results for 24 countries in the region covering 146 international air.....
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.....
China Traffic Woes Accumulate
Yesterday saw commercial flight departures in China reach a new low. At 1758 the comparison with levels achieved just two months ago is stark.&n.....
Top 2021 China Domestic Airport Rankings
With so much focus in Travel Retail on the domestic airports in China, Air4casts’ Chart of the Day lists the top 20 airports in mainland China r.....
Chinese Domestics in Freefall
No China watcher can have missed the recent and rapid rise in Covid cases: 5280 at the March 15 count.
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Russia Forecast Update
The international and domestic forecasts for all Russian departures and arrivals have again been revised downward.
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The China Forecast Options: International Passengers
It may just be that the Winter Olympics have brought to the forefront of minds the timing of any relaxation in the restrictions on China International.....
Forecast Update February 2022
The latest forecast revisions have been uploaded to subscribers’ websites.
The initial fears which were Omicron have receded th.....
Singapore in December; Traffic Doubles
The latest Singapore actuals for the month of December are recently to hand.
They show:
✓ an increase of 107% on November and
✓ a m.....
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.....
Forecast Update; International Focus January 2022
A goodly proportion of subscribers have, of late and quite understandably, been pre-occupied by the possible downside effects of the Omicron variant.
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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.....
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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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Chinese Domestic Travellers: The September Data
It is welcome news that the sector has recovered strongly in September after a disastrous August.
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China Domestics; Reporting the last 7 days
The number of passengers departing Chinese airports on domestic flights in the last seven days was down on the week before.
As importan.....
Haikou Meilan Update
This week’s Hainan report has been updated with the Haikou Meilan airport passenger data for the week ended Wednesday 18 August 2021.
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Day Trips up Threefold
Hainan Island welcomed 5.9 million tourists in June. Of those the biggest increase came from day trippers who increased over 200 percentage .....
Hainan’s April Sales Up 49% with Tourists Up 135%
Hainan Island’s total retail sales, domestic and duty free, hit USD 3 billion last month, up by almost a half on April 2020 according to the.....
Hainan Sales Strong in December but Caution for January
Retail sales of cosmetics, fragrances and skincare on Hainan Island together reached almost USD 350 million in December 2020 according to official.....
Covid-19: Travel Restrictions are Largely Ineffective
It is perhaps a little unlikely that many subscribers will be attentive readers of the “Lancet”: the world’ leading medical jour.....
Tourists Top 9 Million and Cosmetics Sales Soar
The Hainan provincial government’s monthly report for October highlights the extent of the island’s emergence as the key.....
Covid-19; the Second Wave and Travel Retail
While not entirely a European phenomenon, it is evident also in the USA, in some countries of Latin America and now in South Korea, the second wav.....
Hainan September Sales by Category
With Hainan Island’s Duty Free sales topping USD 1.63 billion from 1st July to 19 October, today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the drivers.....
Middle East October Latest: Strong Growth
Internationals in October: flight data which is available for the first three weeks of the month, indicates a 22% point September to October increase .....
US International Air Departures on the Rise Again
September international air passenger traffic from every US airport is now available to Air4casts and it is showing the lowest rate of decline since t.....
Europe in September
A slowdown is entirely to be expected as passenger numbers signal the end of the summer season.
In a normal year the movement from August t.....
Eurotunnel Rapidly Improves Performance
Today's Chart of the Day from Air4casts examines the latest monthly passenger vehicle statistics from Eurotunnel. They show a rapid return to leve.....
Holiday Destinations Boost Recovery
Daily flight numbers for this week indicate a strengthening of the recovery which has been slow to get under way.
There are “high&rdq.....
Hainan: Impressive July Performance
With Hainan Island’s duty free shopping spend in the first week of July reaching USD 64 million, Air4casts examines the latest July travel trend.....
USA Independence Day Travel Down 80%
Daily air passenger numbers from the USA show a significantly less rosy reality than forward bookings suggested in the run-up to the vacation.
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Recovery Forecasts; The European Summer Season
With governments working hard to establish safe air corridors to allow tourists to travel to their summer destinations, and with Ryanair announcing a .....
China Recovery Watching
Today's Air4casts bulletin analyses the domestic and international March airport passenger counts from China's top airports.
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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.....