ACI World lays out road map for industry COVID-19 recovery
Airports Council International (ACI) World has today published a policy brief outlining a road map for the airport industry’s recovery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Policy Brief – COVID-19: Relief Measures to Ensure the Survival of the Airport Industry – outlines exceptional measures to provide policy-makers with a comprehensive toolkit of solutions to […]
Airports sign up to Buckingham Palace Declaration
Four more airports have joined the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking with Hong Kong, Munich, Sydney and Toronto Pearson signing the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration. The declaration sets out to make tangible steps to close the routes exploited by traffickers of the illegal wildlife trade as they attempt to smuggle rare […]
ACI World: 2019 could be a bad year for airfreight
Airfreight is continuing to go down, and may well end 2019 in the negative, according to Airports Council International (ACI) World. After falling 2.8% year-on-year in May, the global freight market was down 5.1% in June, pushing the total for the first half of 2019 down 3.2%. The airfreight figures are in contrast to the […]
ACI World: International freight remains weak in May
While global passenger traffic remains resilient, airfreight continued to struggle in May, Airports Council International (ACI) World reports. The global airfreight market fell 2.8% in May, and is down 2.7% on a year-to-date basis due to weak international volumes. International freight was down 5.1% year-on-year in May and 4.7% year-to-date, compared to domestic growth of […]
ACI World: 2019 could be a hard year for airfreight
Following a slightly better month in March, airfreight fell again in April with a decline of 3.6%, according to Airports Council International (ACI) World. Around the world, only North America and Africa saw total freight volumes growing year-on-year in April. North America increased by 1.4% in April, with domestic freight increasing by 7.5%, making up […]