Madrid (Europa Press) .- The Airline Industry worldwide generated an economic impact of $ 2.4 billion (1.79 billion euros) in 2013, with a contribution of 3.4 % of world GDP.
Last year, the airline carried 3,129,000 passengers, 5.1% more than in 2012 and nearly 48 million tons of cargo, up 1.8% on about 100,000 flights a day.
Also, different companies added more than 1,100 direct flights to their networks and frequencies 600.000, to make a total of 50,000 direct flights and 31.5 million frequencies.
‘Star Alliance’ alliance remains the largest sector by concentrating 26.6% of the total traffic generated over the past year, followed by SkyTeam (20.1%) and ‘Oneworld’ (15, 4%).
Asia Pacific was the region with the highest traffic volume, with 1,012 million transported passengers and a 9.3% growth. Europe, secondly, experienced an increase in demand of 3.4% over 2012, registering 825.9 million passengers.
United Kingdom was the European country that reached more traffic, attracting A total of 177.9 million passengers, up 3.7%.
We continued North America, with 818.9 million passenger and a rise of 0.7%, and Latin America and the Caribbean, with 240.5 million passengers, 7.6% more than in 2012.
Middle East with 157.9 million passengers, and Africa, with 73.8 million, as markets appear less volume of demand, despite experiencing both increases of 8.8% and 5.6%, respectively.
By country, the United States recorded the largest passenger flow in 2013, with 618.1 million (+ 3.3%), remaining the largest market in the world both in international and domestic, ahead of China, with 404 200 000 rating (11.8%).
According to the study, the most demanded international route was established between Hong Hong and Taipei, used by 4.9 million travelers, despite reducing their traffic by 11.5% compared to 2012.
The ‘silver medal’ for Europe was between Dublin and London, which attracted 3.6 million passengers, up 6.9%, followed by the connections between Jakarta and Singapore, with 3.4 million passengers, an 9.3% more.
The fuel, cheaper
But domestic routes concentrated more travelers, especially from Jeju- Seoul by which spent a total of 9.58 million passengers, up 1.4% compared to 2012.
The connections between Sapporo and Tokyo were the second most demands in this market, with 9 17 million passengers and a 4.5% increase.
In the freight sector, Federal Express stood at the head of companies in this segment, with 7.1 million tonnes carried followed by UPS Airlines (2.1 million), Emirates (2.1 million), Korean Air, (1.4 million) and Cathay Pacific Airways (1.3 million).
In 2013, fuel prices decreased by 3.9% compared to 2012, at an estimated cost of 210,000 million ($ 157,335.9 million), equivalent to 31% of operating costs for airlines. In fact, since 2005, has improved fuel efficiency by 11%.
At present, the fuel consumption of airlines accounting for 12% of total fossil fuel consumed in the whole transport sector.
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