Datamonitor's Airlines Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the airlines industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global airlines industry generated total revenues of $318.6 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.6% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Passenger volumes increased with a CAGR of 5.5% between 2002-2006, to reach a total of 2,490 million passengers in 2005.

The performance of the industry is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 8.3% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the industry to a value of $475.3 billion by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The airlines industry as defined here is comprised of passenger air transportation. Industry values are generated according to revenues from passenger transportation (including chartered and scheduled flights). Industry volumes reflect total passengers enplaned at all airports within a country. All currency conversions in this profile were carried out using constant 2005 average annual exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific is composed of Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

The Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the US.

The global industry consists of Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.