IATA – All markets record healthy passenger growth, APAC leads recovery

The global passenger traffic in April 2023, measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs rose to 45.8% compared to April 2022. The travel demand continued its trend of strong recovery as per the latest International Air Transport Association (IATA) report. Globally, traffic is now at 90.5% of pre-Covid levels at a load factor of 81.3%, with only 1.8 percentage points below pre-pandemic level. The report highlighted a full recovery in domestic traffic for April with an increase of 42.6% compared to the year-ago period and 2.9% increase over the April 2019. Comparatively, the international traffic climbed 48.0% versus April 2022