Global air passenger traffic up 6.9% in 2018
ISTANBUL. KAZINFORM The global air passenger traffic rose by 6.9% to reach 4.4 billion people year-on-year in 2018, the international aviation authority announced on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports.
The largest number of air passengers were carried inthe Asia-Pacific region with 1.6 billion people.
Europe (1.1 billion passengers) and North America(989.4 million) followed.
«Record efficiency was achieved with 81.9% ofavailable seats being filled,» the association said.
During the year, the top nationalities traveling ininternational flights were the U.K., the U.S., China, Germany and France.
Low-cost carrier segment accounted for 21% of globalair passenger capacity in 2018.
«22,000 city pairs are now connected by directflights, up 1,300 over 2017 and double the 10,250 city pairs connected in1998,» IATA noted.