:: Blue sky project ::

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

It’s been a while - almost two years - since I last analyzed airport traffic trends, so why not have another go at it?

As you can see from the chart to the left (sum of passengers using the top 30 airports), 2004 saw a marked increase in global air travel after a couple years of decline and stagnation. Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Tokyo (Narita) all saw solid gains after notable declines in 2003, and US feeder airports like San Francisco and LAX followed suit. In fact, US airports did fairly well across the board in 2004, outpacing their European counterparts, whose growth has been less erratic over the past five years.

I’ll let the charts speak for themselves. First up is a raw volume bar chart of passenger traffic from 2000 to 2004 for the top 30 airports, ranked by 2004.

Next is a year by year percentage change graph in the same order, better for examining the trends.

Thanks to ACI for their lovely data.

Posted by morland @ 05:48 PM

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