Outlook for Air Transport to the Year 2025 - FILT CGIL Foggia

Chapter 2. Air Transport Trends and Challenges 99. Airlines of the Asia/Pacific region achieved the highest share of air freight traffic of about 38.0 per cent,while the European and North American airlines saw their shares decline to 31.2 per cent and 18.3 per cent,respectively, in 2005. Airlines of the Middle East region increased their share to 7.4 per cent while the shares ofLatin American and Caribbean, and African carriers declined to 3.2 per cent and 1.9 per cent respectively.Passenger traffic on major international route groups10. Figure 2-4 illustrates trends of scheduled passenger traffic measured in terms of passenger-kilometresperformed on major international route groups between 1985 and 2005 (for data see Table 1-3). It shows thecontinued dominance of the top three major intercontinental route groups (North Atlantic, Europe-Asia/Pacificand Trans-Pacific). Other route groups (such as Europe-Africa, Mid-Atlantic and Europe-Middle East) have beengrowing faster but from a smaller base.TRENDS IN NON-SCHEDULED PASSENGER TRAFFIC11. The global development of non-scheduled traffic has been partially masked by some statistical reportingdeficiencies among non-scheduled air carriers. Available data, however, permit some indications of the developmentand importance of charter traffic.450Passenger-kilometres (billions)375300225150751985 20050North AtlanticMid-AtlanticSource: IATA and ICAO.South AtlanticTrans-PacificEurope-Asia/PacificEurope-AfricaEurope-Middle EastMiddle East-Asia/PacificNorth America-South AmericaNorth America-Central America/CaribbeanFigure 2-4. Passenger-kilometres performed on scheduled services —Major international route groups (1985 and 2005)