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MAY 13, 2003 (newstodate): AEA sees continued depressed traffic figures for the airlines during the week ending May 4.
Traffic losses were especially massive in the Asia-Pacific segment where traffic was 26.4 percent down compared to last year.
Despite the virtual cessation of hostilities in the Iraq war, traffic volumes in the Middle East sector were still down by 10.4 percent.
Slowly recovering is traffic in the European segment which was up by 1.5 percent, while North Atlantic fared even better, up five percent.
-We have lost three years of traffic increase, says Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, AEA general secretary, in a statement.
Traffic losses were especially massive in the Asia-Pacific segment where traffic was 26.4 percent down compared to last year.
Despite the virtual cessation of hostilities in the Iraq war, traffic volumes in the Middle East sector were still down by 10.4 percent.
Slowly recovering is traffic in the European segment which was up by 1.5 percent, while North Atlantic fared even better, up five percent.
-We have lost three years of traffic increase, says Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, AEA general secretary, in a statement.