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Air4casts has, to date, recorded March passenger actuals from 550 airports around the world which, for the moment is dominated by China whose massive domestic market continues to grow. (more…)

Hard to argue that they will not but harder still to predict the sorts of release mechanisms which will exist and where. It is quite possible that there will be as many approaches as there

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The Hainan provincial government’s monthly report for October highlights the extent of the island’s emergence as the key Travel Retail hotspot in 2020. (more…)

There are important regional pockets which continue to suggest that the single largest impediment to the recovery of air travel is the policies of governments; there is an appetite for leisure travel. (more…)

With Hainan Island’s Duty Free sales topping USD 1.63 billion from 1st July to 19 October, today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the drivers behind that extraordinary 218% point year on year sales value increase. For the

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With most of the world’s international air network now in lockdown, latest April forecast is -92% after Turkey and Russia stopped international flights at the weekend, and still probably overstated, today’s Air4casts bulletin looks at

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Today’s Air4casts analysis covers the fastest growing foreign terminals for Chinese air travellers over the peak 15 day New Year holiday period. Whilst the bulk of the New Year travel happens by ‘plane and train

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The HKG Airport Authority yesterday issued its air traffic figures for September showing that total departures and arrivals for the month were down by 12.8% which has had a marked effect on the regional total:

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In the run up to this year’s TFWA in Cannes, here are today’s top Fact Check tips for readers. The Air4casts Fact Check service is available free of charge to all those companies operating in

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A reduction in the rate of growth of GDP has been widely covered in the financial press: 6.2% in Q2 as against 6.4% in Q1. (more…)