« Ofcom on message | Main | Qualified success at Qantas »

Premium pain

Latest figures from air transport association IATA make clear the extent of the downturn in business traffic, but also appear to confirm signs of stabilisation - as suggested by British Airways' most recent traffic statistics.

The headline falls are still enough to trigger a double take, however. Premium traffic was down 21.3% year on year in June, against 23.6% in May, and IATA put the decline in revenue from premium travel at close to 40%.

That is quite a hit when the forward cabin provides anything up to one third of the income of major carriers.

The decline in passengers across all classes was 7.1% in June against 9.2% in May.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.travelweekly.co.uk/movabletype/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/5439

Comments (2)

Great post. I was checking continuously this blog and I am impressed! Extremely helpful info particularly the last part I care for such info much. I was looking for this certain information for a long time. I will keep the attention of your blog. Thank you and have a nice day.

Howdy! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering if you knew where I could get a captcha plugin for my comment form? I'm using the same blog platform as yours and I'm having problems finding one? Thanks a lot!

Post a comment

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on August 19, 2009 12:31 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Ofcom on message.

The next post in this blog is Qualified success at Qantas.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Powered by
Movable Type Pro