Recently, I came across a paper which is able to illustrate passenger kilometers for a country. The document can be downloaded at: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/40807 . The illustration is on page 5.
Similarly, IATA is also able to break down the RPKs into region: http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/Documents/economics/MIS_Note_Aug10.pdf
Since RPKs is actually airline specific info, I wonder how they derive the respective RPKs for a country.
Do they derive a country’s RPK by the summation of RPKs of its domicile carriers?
By: zoot horn rollo - 1st October 2010 at 08:05
It’s all about definitions and it’s only misleading if you don’t label the graphs correctly.
In the old days I used to ensure that the monthly press release clearly made reference to ‘european carriers’ rather than just ‘europe’. I didn’t read the linked article too closely but I think I saw some vague references along similar lines.
Remember (once again) that IATA is a trade association and the purposes of press releases is to highlight the results of the membership rather than being a rigorous statistical data collection.
By: chornedsnorkack - 1st October 2010 at 07:29
But surely this is highly misleading?
Does anybody have statistics over, say, all RPK-s flown in and out of a country summed over domiciled and foreign carriers serving the country?
By: zoot horn rollo - 29th September 2010 at 13:40
Yes, that’s how they do it.
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