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15.12.2017

Santa Claus is falling further behind the global passenger business

Chart of the week: We estimate that Santa & his team will fly 1.4 billion flights this holiday period, to deliver presents to 1.9 billion children.

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08.12.2017

Airlines forecast to create value for investors for 4th year

Chart of the Week: IATA forecasts 2018 to be the 4th consecutive year of above-cost-of-capital returns for investors.

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01.12.2017

Unique city-pair connections exceed 20,000 for the first time

Chart of the week: This year airlines across the world connected a record number of cities, with unique city-pair connections exceeding 20,000 for the first time.

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24.11.2017

​Assessing the impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria on aviation

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17.11.2017

The importance of middle income households in air pax demand

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10.11.2017

​Where does premium-class demand matter the most?

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03.11.2017

What's driving the eastward shift in aviation's centre of gravity?

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27.10.2017

What are the risks to the upbeat outlook for traffic volumes?

Amongst the detail of our Q3 Business Confidence survey results one interesting finding emerged: none of our survey respondents expect volumes to decline in the year ahead

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20.10.2017

​What has driven the outperformance of Chinese aviation?

To mark the 19th National Congress in China, we take a closer look at the huge increases in economic and aviation activity seen in the country over the past 35 years.

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13.10.2017

Confidence growing that cyclical upturn will continue

This week the IMF released its World Economic Outlook, which suggests that the ‘global upswing in economic activity is strengthening’ and it forecasts global GDP growth of 3.7-3.8% per year.

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