The airline industry continued to improve through December of last year. India’s domestic air traffic in 2022 got 85.7% higher than it was in 2019 before the Covid scandal broke.
IATA Estimated The Rise In Air Traffic
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that global traffic will increase by 64.4% over 2021 in terms of revenue passenger kilometres. Additionally, it said that global December 2022 traffic increased by 39.7% over December 2021 to reach 76.9% of December 2019 levels, putting year-to-date traffic in 2022 at 68.5% of pre-pandemic (2019) levels.
The airline industry recovered in December 2022 and throughout 2022. It said that India’s domestic traffic for the entire year increased by 48.8% from 2021 to 2019 levels or 85.7%.
Globally, international traffic increased in 2022 by 152.7 per cent over 2021 levels and 62.2 per cent over 2019 levels. International traffic in December 2022 increased by 80.2% over December 2021 and surpassed 75.1% of the level in December 2019.
Domestic travel increased by 10.9% in 2022 over the previous year, according to IATA. The traffic in 2022 was 79.6% of what it was for the entire year 2019. Domestic travel in December 2022 increased by 2.6% over the corresponding period in the previous year. It reached 79.9% of travel in December 2019.
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IATA Director General Shared The Progress
According to Willie Walsh, Director General of IATA, the industry emerged in 2022 in far better shape than it had during the year, as most governments lifted COVID-19 travel restrictions and people made use of the return of their freedom to travel. Despite some governments’ exaggerated responses to China’s reopening, it is anticipated that this momentum will continue in the New Year,
He also expressed his hope that the year 2022 will be remembered as the one in which governments finally put an end to the regulatory chains that had bound their citizens to the earth for so long. He added that governments must learn the lesson that, in today’s interconnected world, travel restrictions and border closures have little effect on containing the spread of infectious diseases. The global economy, which depends on the unhindered movement of people and goods, as well as people’s lives and means of subsistence, are all adversely affected, according to Walsh.
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