Travel Retail
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The power of China’s authorities to control mass movement over the Spring Festival period is vividly illustrated by the Ministry of Transport’s daily passenger numbers. Today’s Air4casts bulletin focuses on the traditional 10 day peak
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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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That there continues to be substantial pent-up demand for international travel has, from the evidence, never been in doubt. (more…)
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It is indeed small comfort that December shows a slight improvement in the total number of passengers travelling by air; slight because, based on 630 reporting airports, total numbers comprising both internationals and domestics are
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Today’s Air4casts Recovery Briefing video looks at the importance of the weekly and monthly passenger actuals that come direct from the airports themselves. Up to the minute airport passenger numbers are a critical element in
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Retail sales of cosmetics, fragrances and skincare on Hainan Island together reached just over USD 1 billion in December 2020 according to official Hainan Provincial government numbers released this week. The Hainan reporting includes all
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The latest flight schedules, published today, provide a brilliant insight into how the world’s largest carriers see the year panning out; not just the top ten but with the addition of carriers from China and
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While Q1 of this year will be, in all but a very few areas disappointing to say the least, the December record for international air passengers offers real encouragement for the subsequent quarters. (more…)
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Updated today with new results from China, this Air4casts bulletin analyses the global airport passenger traffic rankings for the first ten months of 2020 The analysis covers the domestic passenger rankings, and separately, the international
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Hot off the press from the US government is the news that 1.7 million American passport holders took an international flight out of the US in December 2020. That is the highest number since March
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