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onboard equipment, and better navigation and traffic control. Although some of these<br />

gains will be difficult to improve on in the future, the International Air Transport<br />

Association (IATA) 42 has adopted a voluntary target to reduce fuel consumption and<br />

CO 2 emissions by at least 25% by 2020 – per revenue tonne kilometre – compared<br />

to 2005 levels. 43<br />

In developed countries, the market is approaching saturation, particularly in<br />

the US. Indeed, the lowest percentage increase in aviation passenger traffic over the<br />

past three decades has been in North America. Looking forward, it is clear that there<br />

is huge potential for air traffic growth in developing countries. This is borne out by<br />

the dramatic differences in aviation traffic growth observed across regions. While the<br />

world average for aviation travel was about one flight per person in 2007, it ranged<br />

from 0.006 flights per head in Bangladesh, to over 13 flights per head in Ireland. 44<br />

Table 2.7 shows that while passenger kilometres flown in the OECD grew by an<br />

average of just over 3% p.a. in the period 2000–2007, developing countries’ flights<br />

Table 2.7<br />

Passenger kilometres flown billions<br />

1980 2000 2007 1980–2000 2000–2007<br />

North America 452.5 1,225.5 1,436.6 5.1 2.3<br />

Western Europe 206.1 852.0 1187.6 7.4 4.9<br />

OECD Pacific 47.8 296.4 339.9 9.6 2.0<br />

OECD 706.4 2,373.9 2,964.1 6.2 3.2<br />

Latin America 33.1 103.0 116.9 5.8 1.8<br />

Middle East & Africa 30.2 55.7 96.2 3.1 8.1<br />

South Asia 18.5 49.4 100.8 5.0 10.7<br />

Southeast Asia 43.8 228.9 340.6 8.6 5.8<br />

China n/a 82.7 273.4 n/a 18.6<br />

OPEC 23.3 39.3 176.6 2.6 23.9<br />

Developing countries 148.9 559.0 1,104.5 6.8 10.2<br />

Russia n/a 25.9 80.1 n/a 17.5<br />

Other trans. economies 3.2 20.2 31.5 9.7 6.6<br />

Transition economies n/a 46.1 111.6 n/a 13.5<br />

World n/a 2,979.0 4,180.2 n/a 5.0<br />

Source: ICAO online database, www.icaodata.com.<br />

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