1987 A Boom Year for Air Transport

Final data from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) for 1987 indicated total scheduled traffic by the world’s airlines in 1987 – both passenger and freight – showed strong increase compared to 1986. In terms of tonne-kilometers performed the rate of growth exceeded 10%. This compares with a 7% growth between 1985 and 1986 and it is the first time in the 1980s that the world’s airline industry has shown double-digit growth. Another landmark reached in 1987 was the carriage of more than one billion passengers for the first time in aviation history.

In scheduled international and domestic services airlines of ICAO’s 157 Member States performed 1,600,000 million passenger kilometres, some 10% more than in 1986. The number of seats offered increased by a lower rate than the number of passengers carried and therefore the estimated passenger load factor went up from 65% to 67%. Air freight is estimated to have increased to some 48,000 million tonne-kilometres in 1987 or by about 11%. Airmail showed a small increase.

Meanwhile, the International Air Transport Association asks, will airline traffic hold up in 1988?

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