Asia Pacific’s Aviation Industry Remains Buoyant

Singapore: Asia’s air travellers can this month choose from nearly 85 million scheduled airline seats, with the world’s carriers laying on more flights to, from and within the region than ever before.
Latest statistics from travel and transport information company OAG show that airlines are flying more than 11.7 million seats on routes to and from the Asia-Pacific region this month – nine per cent more than in January last year – and more than 73.2 million seats on intra-regional services, an increase of seven per cent.
The January totals of 46,700 intercontinental flights and 493,000 intra-regional flights are also up nine and seven per cent respectively. Five years ago, airlines operated 29,000 flights to and from Asia-Pacific, and 351,000 within the region.
The figures are revealed in the latest OAG Quarterly Airline Traffic Statistics, a regular snapshot of airline activity around the world. OAG collates data from more than 1,000 scheduled airlines, on a daily basis, to give an overview of anticipated travel demand.
01/02/07 PR.com (press release), US

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