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Asia-Pacific airlines to reach full recovery in 2024: AAPA report
March 2nd 2023
Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) director general, Subhas Menon, forecasts the region’s carriers will be fully recovered from COVID by early next year, FlightGlobal reports, citing Menon’s speech at Aviation Festival Asia in Singapore. Read More » The reopening of the China market to international travellers has improved prospects for Asia-Pacific airlines, he said. At present, China accounts for a single digit percentage of Asia-Pacific passenger traffic, down from about 20% pre-pandemic, he added. AAPA data published in January showed Asia-Pacific airlines flew 105.4 million international passengers in 2022, about 28% of the 375.5 million international passengers transported by the region’s carriers in 2019, the last full year for air travel before the outbreak of the pandemic.
