OTTI Reports Total International Air Traffic up Eight Percent Year-to-Date
Foreign Citizen and Foreign Flag Traffic Growth Outpaced U.S. Citizens and Carriers
Performance metrics reported are :
Total air travel (arrivals + departures),
U.S. citizen and foreign citizen air travelers, U.S. flag and foreign flag carriers, Top U.S. and foreign airports.
Summary of January through June 2012 :
International air traffic to/from the United States (1) totaled 104.03 million passengers from January through July 2012, an eight percent increase over the first seven months of 2011.
For the month of July, air traffic was up five percent from July 2011, disclosing slower growth.
U.S. citizen air travel (47.6 million) increased five percent and comprised 46 percent of all air traffic. Foreign national (non-U.S. citizen) air travelers (56.5 million) increased by 11 percent, representing 54 percent of the total market.
U.S. airlines carried 56.7 million passengers, up five percent, however their share dropped one percentage point to 55 percent. Foreign flags carried 47.3 million passengers, up 11 percent from January-June 2011, with their share increasing to 45 percent.
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