Director General, Willie Walsh said that with tight capacity and thin margins, air fares are already rising, and the capacity deployment is also adjusting, particularly for traffic to, from, or through the Middle East, or in areas where fuel supply is an issue. Capacity growth scheduled for March, has eased to 3.3% from earlier predictions of over 5%.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for January 2026 global passenger demand. Total demand, measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPK), was up 3.8% compared to January 2025. Total capacity, measured in available seat kilometers (ASK), increased 3.5% year-on-year. The load factor was 82.0% (+0.2 ppt compared to January 2025), a record high for January...

SITA has launched Advance Flight Delay Notification API to give airlines and airports earlier visibility of potential delays, allowing teams to act sooner and limit disruption before it escalates. The financial impact of late intervention is already significant. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that air traffic flow management delays in Europe alone have cost...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will hold the 2026 edition of the World Legal Symposium (WLS) from February 17-19, in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by LOT Polish Airlines, under the theme ‘Liability in a Changing World’. Airlines face a variety of enduring and new categories of liability, including their classic insured risks, a host of contemporary compliance areas, such as ESG...

Leading the regions in terms of percentage growth was Asia Pacific with a year-on-year growth of 22.8% with 21 million premium passengers.

The steepest fall in revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) growth from May was in the Middle East, where intl. traffic contracted 0.4% y-o-y, impacted by military conflict. Latin America saw highest increase in demand, while India recorded 3.1% domestic RPK.