{"id":210714,"date":"2026-07-31T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/?p=210714"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:07:46","slug":"iata-reports-air-passenger-demand-drops-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/iata-reports-air-passenger-demand-drops-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"IATA reports air passenger demand drops in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IATA-2025-Survey-TravelTech-Solution_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IATA-2025-Survey-TravelTech-Solution_1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IATA-2025-Survey-TravelTech-Solution_1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IATA-2025-Survey-TravelTech-Solution_1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>IATA is reporting that air passenger demand dropped by 1.7% in June of this year. Highlights of the global airline association\u2019s new data show that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Total demand, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), was down 1.7% compared to June 2025. Excluding the Middle East, demand declined by 0.6%. Total capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASK), decreased 1.3% year-on-year. The load factor was 84.2% (-0.4 ppt compared to June 2025).<\/li>\n<li>International demand fell 0.9% compared to June 2025. Excluding the Middle East, demand grew by 1.1%. Capacity was down 0.6% year-on-year, and the load factor was 84.2% (-0.2 ppt compared to June 2025).<\/li>\n<li>Domestic demand contracted 3.0% compared to June 2025. Capacity decreased 2.4% year-on-year. The load factor was 84.0% (-0.5 ppt compared to June 2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Willie Walsh, IATA\u2019s Director General, said that: \u201cGlobal demand for air travel was down 1.7% in June compared to 2025. This is largely due to domestic market declines in China, the US, and Japan, and weak but improving international demand for Middle East carriers. While Middle East performance improved, renewed tensions will not help the region\u2019s recovery and the knock-on impact of rising fuel prices will continue to burden travelers with higher airfares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh continued: \u201cPeople continue to travel, which is an important contributor to global economic growth. There is no doubt, however, that stabilizing the situation in the Middle East and normalizing oil supplies would improve prospects for airlines, economies, and societies the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iata.org\">www.iata.org<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IATA is reporting that air passenger demand dropped by 1.7% in June of this year. Highlights of the global airline association\u2019s new data show that: \u00a0Total demand, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), was down 1.7% compared to June 2025. Excluding the Middle East, demand declined by 0.6%. Total capacity, measured in available seat kilometres<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/iata-reports-air-passenger-demand-drops-in-june\/\">more &#8250;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"front_page":[],"class_list":["post-210714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210731,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210714\/revisions\/210731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210714"},{"taxonomy":"front_page","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/front_page?post=210714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}