Air Travel Passenger Numbers To Recover by 2024 – IATA

IATA expects overall traveler numbers to reach 4.0 billion in 2024, exceeding pre-COVID-19 levels.

• In 2021, overall traveler numbers were 47% of 2019 levels – expected to improve to 83% in 2022, 94% in 2023, 103% in 2024 and 111% in 2025.
• In 2021, international traveler numbers were 27% of 2019 levels – expected to improve to 69% in 2022, 82% in 2023, 92% in 2024 and 101% in 2025.
• In 2021, domestic traveler numbers were 61% of 2019 levels – expected to improve to 93% in 2022, 103% in 2023, 111% in 2024 and 118% in 2025.

AFRICA
Africa’s passenger traffic prospects are somewhat weaker in the near-term, due to slow progress in vaccinating the population, and the impact of the crisis on developing economies. Passenger numbers to/from/within Africa will recover more gradually than in other regions, reaching 76% of 2019 levels in 2022, surpassing pre-crisis levels only in 2025 (101%).

People want to travel. And when travel restrictions are lifted, they return to the skies. There is still a long way to go to reach a normal state of affairs, but the forecast for the evolution in passenger numbers gives good reason to be optimistic. -Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director-General.

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SOURCE: IATA