IATA: India continues to perform as strongest global domestic market, Brazilian market shrinks

IATA reported (04-Aug-2016) the following domestic demand highlights for Jun-2016:

• Global: Domestic travel climbed 5.7% year-on-year, while capacity increased 4.3%, causing load factor to rise 1.1 percentage points to 83.2%. All markets reported demand increases with the exception of Brazil;
• India: Continued to lead all markets with a 23.3% rise in domestic traffic, propelled by strong growth in real consumer spending as well as by the fact that airlines are adding airport pairs and frequencies;
• Australia: Airlines have operating fewer frequencies and downgauging aircraft in recent months, contributing to a 3.6% decline in capacity. The result is that load factor surged 4.9 percentage points to 79.4% on a 2.8% increase in traffic. [more - original PR]