Air traffic growth slows to most sluggish since January 2015

Singapore

GROWTH in passenger traffic slowed in April to 4.6 per cent - the most sluggish pace since January 2015 - owing to the attack on Brussels Airport, but it was a slightly more encouraging story for the freight market, with cargo traffic picking up by 3.2 per cent.

Stripping out the impact of the Brussels attack, global passenger traffic growth (measured in revenue-passenger-kilometre) would have been up five per cent year on year, estimates the International Air Transport Association (Iata) in its monthly traffic update.