Airline passenger load factor
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T62-B5SP11A28T-N24FMQ
Global · 2024
Airline passenger load factor worldwide was 83.5% in 2024 (IATA).
Airline passenger load factor: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IATA
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- Highlights
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The overall load factor reached 83.5%, a record for full-year traffic.
Checked: the figure 83.5%is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
Cite this figure
APA
International Air Transport Association. (2025). Global Air Passenger Demand Reaches Record High in 2024. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-01-30-01/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FMQ
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Air Transport Association. "Global Air Passenger Demand Reaches Record High in 2024." 2025, https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-01-30-01/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FMQ.
- Chicago
- International Air Transport Association. "Global Air Passenger Demand Reaches Record High in 2024." 2025. https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-01-30-01/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FMQ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iata2025airlinen24fmq, author = {{International Air Transport Association}}, title = {Global Air Passenger Demand Reaches Record High in 2024}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FMQ}, note = {Original source: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-01-30-01/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Other sources disagree
1 record reports a different value for this same indicator, region and period. We keep both rather than choosing or averaging. The disagreement is itself information.
| Value | Divergence | Source organisation | Document | Locator | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83.2% | -0.3 pp | ICAO | Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024 | Available seat-kilometres (ASK) capacity | Open record |
Provenance and verification
Everything needed to check this number yourself, without taking our word for it.
Primary source
- Publisher
- International Air Transport Association · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National and industry official
- Report
- Global Air Passenger Demand Reaches Record High in 2024
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 30 January 2025
- Locator
- Highlights
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FMQ