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IATA: airlines more profitable again in 2020

The global airline industry is expected to improve its net profit next year to $29.3 billion up from $25.9 billion this year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in its 2020 forecast. While others disagree and expect the world economy to contract...

China to Become Largest Market in World by 2022- IATA

IATA has published its latest 20 year aviation forecast, and projects that China will overtake the US in terms of passenger traffic by 2022. The following graphic shows the top 10 markets in 2016 and 2036. It is clear that traffic growth in Asia will change the...

City pairs explode

IATA released data showing that this year airlines across the world connected a record number of cities, with unique city-pair connections exceeding 20,000 for the first time. The annual percentage increase in the number of city pairs served was the largest since 2004...

Airline traffic growth back

IATA reports that airline traffic is growing again. Take a look at the table below. IATA noted: "...June showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose by 7.8% compared to the year-ago period. This was in line with the 7.7% growth...

China to Become Largest Market in World by 2022- IATA

Jan 23, 2018 | IATA

IATA has published its latest 20 year aviation forecast, and projects that China will overtake the US in terms of...

City pairs explode

Dec 5, 2017 | Airbus, Boeing, IATA

IATA released data showing that this year airlines across the world connected a record number of cities, with unique...

Airline traffic growth back

Aug 3, 2017 | Airlines, IATA

IATA reports that airline traffic is growing again. Take a look at the table below. IATA noted: "...June showing that...

Preliminary Agreement on Airliner Cyber Security Standards

Jun 14, 2016 | Airlines, Cyber, Cyber-Security, GPS, IATA

Please start here. This is huge news. Readers know that we have a significant interest in this subject. We have...

Good Year for Airlines in Aviation Safety According to IATA

Feb 15, 2016 | Airlines, IATA

Safety reports from IATA for 2015 indicate that the level of safety in the industry remains high and accident rates...

Rockwell Collins Solves Flight Tracking Issues

Mar 10, 2015 | Avionics, Flight Tracking, IATA, Rockwell, Rockwell-Collins

Rockwell Collins today introduced the ARINC Mult-Link Flight Tracking service to enable airlines to cost-effectively...

e-Enabled Aircraft and Emerging Threats

Oct 30, 2013 | Aerospace, Aircraft, Airlines, Business Jets, Connectivity, EU, FAA, IATA, Security

[Guest Column by Oussama Salah, President Gulf Aeronautics USA] As technology advances, the obvious spinoff is...

IATA Director General Supports AA-US Merger at Wings Club

Sep 24, 2013 | American Airlines, IATA, US Airways

At this month’s Wings Club meeting in New York last Thursday, Tony Tyler, CEO and Director General of IATA, the...

Promising Biofuels

Mar 30, 2012 | Airlines, Biofuel, Engines, FAA, General Aviation, IATA, Power

We believe an area that deserves more aerospace attention is biofuels. Airlines need these fuels because they can...

ETS starts to bite

Mar 12, 2012 | Airlines, EU, IATA

The ongoing kerfuffle over the EU's ETS is now starting to hurt in places the EU seems to have overlooked - in its own...

Latin America – a region deserving lots more attention

Nov 18, 2011 | Aerospace, Airlines, IATA

One of the few regions not heavily impacted by weak economies in Europe and the US has been Latin America. While the...

Even more taxes?

Oct 19, 2011 | Aerospace, Airlines, Airports, Associations, IATA, Taxes

Yes its true. The Obama Administration’s proposed tripling of the passenger security tax is on the table. Will...