Amadeus confirms that Asia has the world’s highest number of top air routes

According to the latest Amadeus’ survey, Asia dominated again air transport last year. Although all regions in the world recorded a growth, air travel in Asia jumped significantly by 9% followed by Latin America up by 6% while the Pacific area and Europe came both at 4%. Last year, Asia recorded some 787 million of passengers, distancing Europe by over 100 million passengers (Europe recorded 680 million air travellers in 2012).  

Analysis from Amadeus Air Traffic Travel Intelligence reveals that Asia is the largest, fastest-growing and most competitive market for air travel. 75% of air routes in Asia are served by three or more airlines and just 25% of routes by one or two carriers.

However, the market share of Low Cost Carriers is still lower than in Europe or America. Europe has the highest concentration of LCC traffic, representing 38% of total air travel in 2012. But Europe is now closely tracked by “South West Pacific” (Australasia and the Pacific Rim) with a LCC penetration of 37% followed by North America with 30%. By comparison, LCC share in Asia remains at modest levels, at only 19% in 2012.

Among other key findings, the study reveals that 22% of all global air travel is concentrated on just 300 origin and destination ‘super routes ’, each of which carries over 1 million passengers annually. Furthermore, 69% of all global air travel is made on major routes with 100 thousand annual passengers.

Analysis of the busiest routes in the world by passenger volume shows that seven out of the top ten world’s busiest air travel routes are in Asia. Jeju-Seoul in South Korea remains the world’s busiest air route, and many of 2011’s top origin and destination (O&D) routes return to the league table for 2012, however, there has been some change: in particular, Beijing-Shanghai has risen from seventh-busiest route in the world in 2011, to fourth-busiest in 2012. Sapporo-Tokyo has overtaken Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo to second-busiest route ranking, and Okinawa-Tokyo has entered the top ten table, as ninth-busiest route in the world.

Looking at connections, the preeminence of the Middle East is confirmed by Amadeus analysis: the Middle East is turning into a strong performer, with the three key airports of Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai all showing high connecting traffic volumes. For instance, when taken as a group the three airports now serve roughly 15% of all air traffic volume that goes from Asia to Europe and from Europe to the South West Pacific. Furthermore, Europe-Asia traffic routed via the Middle East is growing at roughly 20% per annum.

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Lao Central Airlines Signs Global Distribution Agreement with Amadeus

Lao Central Airlines

From Threeland Travel Indochina's Blog - May 2012

According to Latest Travel News on May 22, 2012, Lao Central Airlines (LCA) - Laos’ first independent airline, has signed a global distribution agreement with Amadeus. Nowadays, travel industry - a market driven by new technologies, new entrants and new business models - is seeing rapid growth, high customer expectations, fierce competition and pressure on margins. In this challenging world, Amadeus is not only the leading Global Distribution System (GDS) and the biggest processor of travel bookings in the world, but a leader in delivering a wider range of superior technology to deal with issues. Therefore, this agreement will provide travel agents worldwide complete access to the new airline's entire range of fares, domestic and international schedules and inventories.

The benefit of the agreement is considerable for both partners. Amadeus becomes the first global distribution system to offer Lao Central Airlines content since the airline began domestic operations earlier this year, followed by the recent launch of international routes on 3 May 2012.

 “Laos as a country is becoming an increasingly active member of the global travel community with air transport links in and around the country critical to the nation’s development. Lao Central Airlines is committed to supporting that development with a rapid growth strategy including plans to introduce two additional jet aircraft to the fleet by 2014,” said Savanhphone Phongsavanh, CEO of Lao Central Airlines.

Travel agencies worldwide will access Lao Central Airlines content through the Amadeus Selling Platform. Agents will experience the highest level of booking connectivity for LCA content, enabling the global Amadeus network real time access to the airline’s schedule and availability information while communicating directly with airline’s inventory system when making a booking, receiving instant confirmation. The carrier will also implement the Amadeus e-ticketing solution which will see travel agents benefit from significant cost reduction and boost efficiency when issuing tickets for the airline.

John Chapman, Vice President, Airline Group Amadeus Asia Pacific said, “We are excited to now offer Lao Central Airlines content to the global Amadeus community and are particularly pleased to have additional content in the growing Laos aviation market. Today’s airline industry is highly competitive and a new and expanding carrier like Lao Central Airlines will benefit from Amadeus’ extensive global network of travel agents, elevating them onto a platform alongside established international airlines.”

(Source: http://www.asiatraveltips.com)

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