India likely to displace UK and be largest aviation market by 2026: IATA

27 Nov 2015 Evaluate

The global air transportation body, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest release on the passenger’s growth forecast stated that India is likely to become the third largest aviation market in the world displacing the UK by 2026. Besides, the IATA expects India's air passenger traffic to grow to 378 million passengers by 2034 .

Globally, the IATA projects that passenger numbers are expected to reach seven billion by2034 with a 3.8 percent average annual growth in demand, which is more than double the 3.3 billion corresponding figure for 2014 and, exactly twice as many as the 3.5 billion flyers expected this year.

In terms of additional passengers per year over the forecast period with 275 million new passengers among the total of 378 million flyers during the period, India will be among the five fastest-increasing markets, after China and the US.

Highlighting that a 'sizable gulf' has opened up between the performance of air passenger markets in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies, IATA said that both India and China are growing fast, with annual growth this year-to- date standing at 16.5 percent and 12.5 percent respectively. China is expected to overtake the US as the world's largest passenger market by 2029 as it will account for some 1.19 billion passengers, at that time.


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