IATA: Over 40% of International Traffic Touched Asia-Pacific in 2014

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced industry performance statistics for 2014 showing the growing demand for air transport. Asia Asia-Pacific has clearly established itself as the industry’s largest market. In 2014 that was demonstrated by several measures: •    International traffic to, from and within the Asia-Pacific region represented 42% of total international revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs). •    Carriers registered in the Asia-Pacific region carried some 33% of total passengers •    The five busiest international and domestic city-pair air routes were all in the Asia-Pacific region. The information was reported in the recently released 59th Edition of the World Air