Traffic

Cargo traffic falls across the board in April first look

Despite a bounce back from earlier declines that major carriers reported for March, sharper year-over-year traffic slowdowns in April indicate the month was the worst this year for many of the carriers that have reported results so far. Of the carriers tracked by Cargo Facts, only Air France-KLM reported an increase in traffic, of 3.3%, for […]

Turkish Cargo’s April volumes plunge on international declines

In its April results, Turkish Cargo reported its first y-o-y decline in cargo tonnage since Cargo Facts began collecting regular data for the carrier in 2011. Overall tonnage fell by 12.9% to about 99,000 tonnes, representing a month-to-month decline of 28.4% from March, for the lowest monthly tonnage the carrier has reported since February 2018. […]

More mixed results in September traffic first look

When many of the world’s major airports and carriers released August performance metrics, the air freight industry seemed to be rebounding from the slowdown in cargo earlier this year. Now that September results are in from some of the world’s big carriers, handlers, and airports, however, August’s rebound seems tentative at best, as operators are […]

IATA reports only 2.1% air freight traffic growth for July

Despite reports from carriers, airports, ground handlers, and the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) indicating a rebound in air freight traffic growth rates during July, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recorded a significant slowdown in year-over-year growth for the month, at only 2.1%. IATA attributed the slower growth to a number of factors, […]

IATA expects slowing freight traffic as demand falls

In its second quarter Cargo Chartbook today, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) declared that the best of the upturn in air freight traffic is past, as traffic in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs) rose by only 4.0% year-over-year during the three months ended April. The positive air freight performance during 2017 was supported by overall […]

Demand growth strengthens in April

When the world’s big cargo carriers, airports, and handlers began reporting their April results, it appeared that while year-over-year growth in demand for air freight would probably be a little higher than the 1.7% IATA reported for March, it would not be by much. But as results continued to come in from some of the […]

Demand flattens and yields soar in March… Or maybe not

Two weeks ago, when we looked at the March air freight data from some of the early-reporting major carriers, airports, and handlers, it was clear that, for most of the world, demand growth had dwindled to almost nothing. The exception was three big carriers from the Americas – United, Delta, and LATAM – all of […]

Demand growth falls in March

March data from some of the world’s big cargo carriers, airports, and handlers paint a mixed picture. On the whole, it seems safe to say that the rate of growth in air freight demand is dropping back to earth from the double-digit percentages we saw over the last sixteen months, but this comes with two […]

Cargo Facts The Air Freight & Express Industry Source of Record