Economics



2009 World Air Transport Statistics Digest and CD ROM

Compiled from the data submissions of  IATA Member airlines and non member, WATS 53rd edition reviews their performance in 2008, including performance indicators for passenger and cargo traffic; capacity; load factors for international, domestic, and system wide operations; and scheduled and charter services. It also provides IATA members' settlement activities, regional and service demand, forecast, safety, fleet utilisation, environmental impact and more. 

WATS leverages valuable information

  • Air transport supply and demand: traffic and capacity trends; performance of major route areas; forecasts for passenger and cargo traffic; key metric trends, rankings and benchmarks
  • Financial performance of the airlines: IATA member financial results, average fare information, fuel data, employee growth, and safety statistics
  • Airline rankings: top 50 IATA member airlines and alliance statistics; rankings in terms of international, domestic and total scheduled passengers, freight tonnes, passenger kilometres, and number of aircraft 
  • CEO commentaries: their point of view on key industry challenges and their creative approaches 
  • Over 40 topics with industry results and trends
  • Top airline performance, including fastest growing airlines
  • Air fare trends by region, and for route area performance
  • WATS also contains the ranking of the top 50 airports worldwide, as well as total tourist-arrivals by region.

Key benefits

  • WATS is timely – published in May each year, it is the most comprehensive information, available at the earliest opportunity
  • WATS is detailed and comprehensive – contains information for over 250 individual airlines
  • WATS is accurate – the team works closely with its member airlines to ensure the quality of the data

Designed for

  • Airlines
  • Airports
  • Financial institutions
  • Consultancy companies
  • Educational institutions
  • Aviation manufacturers
  • Technical staff
  • All levels of management

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