African Airlines’ Traffic Fell 65.2% in 2021 – IATA
The International Air Transport Association – IATA released full-year global passenger traffic results for 2021, showing that demand (revenue passenger ...
The International Air Transport Association – IATA released full-year global passenger traffic results for 2021, showing that demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) fell by 58.4% compared to the full year of 2019. This represented an improvement compared to 2020, when full year RPKs were down 65.8% versus 2019.
African airlines’ international traffic fell 65.2% last year compared to 2019, which was the best performance among regions. Capacity dropped 56.7%, and load factor sank 14.1 percentage points to 57.3%. Demand for the month of December was 60.5% below the 2019 period, a deterioration from the 56.5% decline in November, owing to the impact of government travel restrictions in response to Omicron.
