By Chika Goodluck-Ogazi
AFRICA carriers, including Nigerian airlines, have recorded positive year-to-date growth in their operations last year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.
IATA noted that African airlines’ experienced their fifth consecutive month of positive traffic growth in November 2015, posting a 12.2 per cent rise against what was achieved in November, 2014.
In the data released for global air freight markets recently, IATA announced that air cargo volumes, measured in Freight Tonne Kilometers(FTK) were down by 1.2 per cent in November 2015, compared to November 2014.
Total cargo volumes, however, expanded in October 2015 compared with the previous year,while revealing that African carriers experienced a fall in demand by 6.0 per cent, even as capacity rose by 6.6 per cent.
Meanwhile, IATA has announced that the global passenger traffic results for November had indicated strong traffic growth above the 10-year average rate of 5.6 per cent.
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