Author: Faizal Yahya, NUS
With the global aviation market still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia Pacific region has gone from a world leader in aviation growth to a laggard. Airports Council International (ACI) data indicates that air passenger traffic in the Asia Pacific
Almost 24 million passengers passed through Brisbane Airport’s gates in 2019, with a quarter on international flights. That plummeted to just 7.8 million last financial year. Still, that made it the country’s busiest airport as Queensland escaped the long lockdowns enforced in Sydney and Melbourne.
Hwaseong, South Korea – Asia-Pacific countries have almost entirely missed out on the global recovery of air travel, with flights still down more than 90 percent compared with pre-pandemic levels, new figures show.
The region is the only part of the world to see practically
There is still so much uncertainty around the Omicron variant, but already much needed recovery in Asia Pacific is stalling as reopenings are postponed.
The latest November data from the Skift Recovery Index does not show a strong impact of the
