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Air traffic update and forecast for Latin America - ACI

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Short-term <strong><strong>for</strong>ecast</strong>:<br />

First of all, aviation is a very resilient industry!<br />

-14%<br />

World annual <strong>traffic</strong><br />

(RPKs - trillions)<br />

4.5<br />

Oil Crisis<br />

Oil Crisis<br />

Gulf Crisis<br />

Asian<br />

Crisis<br />

WTC<br />

AttackSARS<br />

-17%<br />

IATA <strong><strong>for</strong>ecast</strong><br />

(March 2009)<br />

4.0<br />

3.5<br />

3.0<br />

2.5<br />

2.0<br />

1.5<br />

1.0<br />

0.5<br />

• World aviation always recovers<br />

from the periodical crisis. In the<br />

case of the last big one (post-<br />

Sept´11), world air <strong>traffic</strong> took<br />

some three years to recover the<br />

<strong>for</strong>mer growth path.<br />

• For the current crisis IATA<br />

predicts a maximum 17%<br />

descent in <strong>traffic</strong> in 2010 versus<br />

the previous trend, with very<br />

long recovery afterwards (but<br />

IATA <strong><strong>for</strong>ecast</strong>s use to be<br />

overpessimistic!)<br />

0.0<br />

1972 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007<br />

2012 2015<br />

Sources: ICAO, IATA,<br />

<strong>Air</strong>bus, ALG<br />

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