London, United Kingdom:
- American Airlines leads the US majors in taking the high 4 slots in Cirium’s World Airline Passenger Ranking for 2021
- Ryanair retains its spot as Europe’s largest airline as low-cost carriers climb the rating
- Familiar names from Europe and Southeast Asia plunge as journey restrictions chunk and long-haul markets stay weak
The main US carriers made a clear sweep of the high 4 locations as aviation analytics agency Cirium revealed its World Airline Passenger Rankings for 2021.
This press launch options multimedia. View the full launch right here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220831005886/en/
US majors take high spot whereas low-cost carriers rise up the Cirium world airways rankings. (Graphic: Business Wire)
American Airlines stays on high of the rating once more in 2021, adopted by Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines, demonstrating the energy of the restoration that continues to happen in the US home market.
Overall, airways in North America confirmed 75% progress from the low level in 2020, though nonetheless ending final 12 months down by 40% on 2019 visitors ranges, as measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometers/Miles (RPKs/RPMs).
The rating, which is predicated on over 600 operators tracked in the Cirium airline database, exhibits that world visitors ended 2021 down by 57% in opposition to the pre-pandemic peak. In phrases of passenger numbers, the complete stood at 2.3 billion for the 12 months, representing round half of the volumes from the peak in 2019.
Low-cost carriers continued to rise up the rankings throughout the areas. Ryanair cemented its place as Europe’s largest service, sitting in fifth place just under Southwest, and was the solely European airline to make it into the high 10.
Europe’s main community carriers have fared much less properly over the previous couple of years, as demand for long-haul, premium journey remained depressed. Although Air France held regular at thirteenth place, Lufthansa slipped down the rankings and British Airways fell out of the high 20 altogether. Virgin Atlantic additionally dropped greater than 50 locations because it too suffered from the sluggish return of long-haul and premium visitors.
The massive three carriers in mainland China – China Southern, China Eastern and Air China – held their place towards the high of the rating, though that might change after a renewed spherical of COVID-19 lockdowns in Chinese cities up to now this 12 months.
Across Asia Pacific as an entire – in stark distinction to restoration in all different world areas – airways noticed visitors fall once more final 12 months. Cathay Pacific slipped spectacularly, falling out of the high 100 rating totally following Hong-Kong’s pursuit of an aggressive zero-COVID technique. It was not alone. Carriers throughout the area in Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand additionally continued to shrink.
In Japan, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines had misplaced almost 85% of their visitors in 2020 and have been nonetheless down by round 75% by the finish of 2021. Both fell steeply down the rankings because of this.
Jeremy Bowen, Cirium CEO, stated: “Pre-pandemic, Asia Pacific airlines held the single largest share of global passenger traffic, with over a third of the world total. By 2021 the region was overtaken by North America, led by the strong recovery in domestic US flying.”
Two Gulf carriers, Emirates and Qatar Airways, each retained their place inside the high 10 airways, though the hole between them narrowed. Emirates slipped 4 locations to take a seat simply forward of a rising Qatar Airways, which has made a degree of sustaining as a lot of its community as potential.
Turkish Airlines, helped by an in depth home market freed from cross-border journey restrictions, climbed 4 locations to 10th in the newest rating in contrast with 2019.
The Cirium rating highlights the battle which mainline carriers have confronted, particularly these counting on a powerful mixture of business journey and long-haul flying. By 2021 their share of world passenger visitors had slipped some 5 proportion factors to 64%. That decline was largely picked up by low-cost carriers, who raised their share to 26%.
Cirium’s World Airline Passenger Ranking 2021 is a premium evaluation obtainable in Cirium Dashboard. The report options:
- The Top 200 airways by passenger visitors
- The Top 50 airline teams by passenger visitors
- The Top 50 airways by passenger quantity
- Passenger visitors by area and by airline sort 2019-2021
- Share of passenger visitors by airline area and airline sort
- Share of passenger quantity by airline sort
Click right here to obtain the full report.
Ends
About Cirium
Cirium brings collectively highly effective knowledge and analytics to maintain the world transferring. Delivering perception, constructed from a long time of expertise in the sector, enabling journey corporations, plane producers, airports, airways and monetary establishments, amongst others, to make logical and knowledgeable selections which form the way forward for journey, rising revenues and enhancing buyer experiences. Cirium is a part of RELX, a world supplier of information-based analytics and choice instruments for skilled and business clients. The shares of RELX PLC are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges utilizing the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.
For additional info please comply with Cirium updates on LinkedIn or Twitter or go to www.cirium.com.
View supply model on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220831005886/en/
