Analysis Reports
Analysis reports from our Chief Economist Office look at Industry performance from an Economic perspective, a report on Industry performance from a Financial perspective done by CTAIRA and a report on the Environment done by IATA which focuses primarily on analyzing climate change, alternate fuels, and highlights the big topics regarding this subject area. It also adds time series data tables on fuel efficiency performance as well as fuel pricing.
Industry Demand Info (Section 1)
Furthermore, traffic figures for the overall air transport industry with a regional breakdown are included, demand is measured by, for example, the
number of passengers carried by airlines, the amount (tonnage) of freight carried by both cargo only and mixed i.e. cargo and passenger-carrying operations/flights. But it also reveals performance-based metrics such as
revenue passenger kilometers (RPK), freight tonne kilometers (FTK), load factor and
weight load factor, and
revenue tonne kilometer (RTK), as well as capacity metrics such as
available seat kilometers (ASK), available freight tonne kilometers (AFTK), and
available tonne kilometers (ATK). These metrics are shared in different data tables that look at international, domestic, and total traffic separately for both passenger and freight as well as combined figures.
Further types of breakdown include depicting the data for these metrics, in easy-to-understand tables and graphs, by carrier type (e.g. low cost or legacy carriers), and looking at:
- Top countries
- By region
- By route areas
- By cabin class
The section closes out with high-level
passenger and freight forecasts which consolidate predicted growth rates for the industry from several trusted sources including ICAO, Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, US FAA, and Eurocontrol.
Industry Performance Info (Section 2)
Data on the
financial performance of the industry is provided with a regional breakdown, and includes performance-based metrics such as
yields. It also includes statistics on airline
costs, fuel performance, and analysis on climate change as well as
pricing info on jet fuel and crude oil.
Financial metrics include time series data on:
- Airline operating revenues
- Airline operating expenses
- Operating and net results
The performance section also includes comparative analysis of Airline costs and revenues vis-a-vie inflation. The cost data has a further breakdown into items such as
salaries, fuel, equipment, maintenance, ticketing, sales, etc. Separated Yield data is also shared showing
average passenger yields and
unit cost by region.
Safety and security performance information provides figures and analysis both on a regional and aircraft level, investigating:
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Accident rates
- Hull loss rates
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Fatal accident rates
- Time series on numbers of unruly passengers compared to number of flights
- Time series on number of security personnel compared to number of flights
Benchmarking/Rankings Info (Section 3)
Providing valuable benchmarking information, this section ranks:
- Top
airlines by passenger traffic broken down into
domestic and
international as well as by numbers of passengers and RPK
- Top
airlines by freight traffic broken down into domestic and international as well as by amount/tonnage of freight and FTK
- Top passenger airport-pairs broken down into route areas for international, domestic, and regional traffic
- Top
passenger countries by region (based on number of passengers)
- Top
freight country pairs for international and regional traffic (based on amount of freight tonnes carried)
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Airline alliances ranked by traffic volume
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Airport rankings broken down by number of passengers handled and number of aircraft movements
- Top
airlines by financial results
- Top
airlines by number of employees overall and as a ratio of number of passengers, freight, and RTK
- Top airlines by fleet with a breakdown on aircraft type
Individual Airline Data (Appendices A, B, C)
WATS data on individual airlines includes performance-based metrics such as revenue passengers carried (RPK) and load factors broken down into weight load factor to enable a study of overall load factors for airlines and include both passenger and cargo measurements.
Also included are capacity metrics such as available seat kilometers (ASK) on the passenger side, andavailable tonne kilometers (ATK) on the cargo/freight side. For applicable airlines the same metrics are available with a breakdown into charter services, as well as overall airline fleet and financial performance.
Additional figures are included for:
- Distance/number of kilometers flown by an airline
- Number of flights and number of hours flown
- Number of passengers carried
- Amount of freight carried
- Number and types of employees (Appendix B)
- Airline revenue data: total operating revenue, operating expense, operating profit, net result, total yield, and unit costs (Appendix C)