ICAO 2017 JANUARY 02 COM
Traffic growth and airline profitability were highlights of air transport in 2016 For immediate release Montréal, 2 January 2017 – Preliminary figures released today by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) indicated that the total number of passengers carried on scheduled services reached 3.7 billion in 2016, a 6.0 per cent increase over last year. The number of departures rose to approximately 35 million globally, and world passenger traffic, expressed in terms of total scheduled revenue passenger-kilometres (RPKs), posted…