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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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Today's client exclusive analysis focuses on the striking Chinese destination performance extremes now in evidence for the final quarter of 2019. Destinations that once seemed unassailable are being forsaken whilst others experience huge surges. (more…)

Two charts of the day today. The first shows the airlines that were operating the Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft before it was withdrawn back in March this year.   (more…)

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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Air4casts has just uploaded its regular monthly forecast updates for 200 travelling nationalities to subscriber websites. With China’s Golden Week holiday now well underway, today’s Air4casts bulletin examines the immediate October Travel Retail outlook for

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With first half 2019 monthly international passenger actuals now available directly from 87% of the world’s airports, today’s Air4casts data briefing pinpoints the effects of the global traffic slowdown on those crucial top 10 international

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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…)

Today's Air4casts data briefing examines the performance of the new airport at Istanbul. (more…)

With so much detailed passenger data available at the monthly, daily and hourly level by departure terminal, it is often easy to lose sight of the basic global airport rankings. Today’s Air4casts Chart of the

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The Air4casts data service focuses on the short term outlook for the Travelling Luxury Consumer, or 'TLC', from China. (more…)