The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced healthy global passenger demand for July with all regions reporting growth. Total revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 6.2%, compared to the same month last year. While this was down from 8.1% year-over-year growth in June, it nevertheless marked a solid start to the peak passenger demand season. Monthly capacity (available seat kilometres or ASKs) increased by 5.5% and load factor rose 0.6 percentage point to a record high for July of 85.2%. “The industry posted another month of solid traffic growth. And the record load factor shows that airlines are becoming even

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