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Asia-Pacific air passengers increased 15.9% in August reports regional airline association
October 4th 2022
Asia-Pacific carriers flew 13.1 million passengers in August, up 15.9% from the 11.3 million air travellers flown in July. Read More » The August figure improved from the 1.4 million passengers carried by the region’s airlines in the same month in 2021, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) reports. AAPA director general, Subhas Menon, said healthy international passenger growth in the first eight months of the year and the reopening of borders was encouraging. “In an increasingly gloomy macroeconomic outlook, lifting travel restrictions in the major North Asian markets of Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong will hasten the pace of the industry’s return to health but full recovery [in the region] is not expected until China opens,” Menon said. “The cooperation of all stakeholders is critical to facilitating a smooth recovery in air travel.” The AAPA’s statistics are aggregated from the traffic data of 40 Asia-Pacific airlines. In pre-COVID-19 August 2019, the region’s airlines flew 32.6 million passengers in the month.
