During 2012, members of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) registered a passenger growth of 2.4% with all route areas showing an increase except domestic. The passenger load factor improved by 1.7 percentage points to 79.1 %.
For the 29 reporting AEA members a total of 370 million passengers were transported, of which 278 million travelled on European services and 92 million on services to destinations in the Middle and Far East, Africa, Australasia and the Americas.
Compared to 2011, an additional 8.7 million passengers chose AEA member airlines. One of the strongest growth areas for the European carriers was North Africa where traffic has been restored since the political turmoil of 2011.
Also passenger volumes to South-America and the Far East developed well thanks to their booming economies. Compared to other geographical areas, air travel in Europe registered only a moderate growth of 1.5%, well below the overall 2.4% traffic increase.
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