Global airline passenger capacity and traffic

Available kilometers measure carrying capacity: the number of seats available multiplied by the number of kilometers flown. Passenger-seat kilometers measure the actual number of kilometers flown by paying customers.

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Field Value
Reference period start 1 January 1929
Reference period end 1 January 2018
Geographies
    Regions ['worldwide']
    Topics
    Category Public Data
    Sources
    Sources 1
    Title
    ICAO
    Link
    https://www.icao.int/
    Overview Text
    Language en
    Is archived
    Sectors Aviation
    Modes All
    Services Passenger
    Update frequency As Needed
    Indicators
    1. Global airline passenger capacity and traffic
    Units
    1. seat km
    2. passenger seat km
    Dimensioning passenger capacity and traffic
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      Data Provider Our World in Data
      URL https://ourworldindata.org/
      Data Access publicly available
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