KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (NNN-Bernama) — The Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) has revised its 2021 passenger traffic forecast downwards, expecting a contraction of between 77.0 per cent and 80.2 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), equivalent to between 5.3 million and 6.1 million passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was significantly lower compared to the 18.9 million-20.6 million passengers previously projected in April 2021, the commission said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis revised forecast assumes a lower load factor and a longer period of seat capacity recovery by airlines,\u201d it said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the second quarter of 2021 (Q2 2021), the total passenger traffic stood at 1.3 million — the lowest since Q2 2020 when it was at 0.8 million, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAVCOM said the re-imposition of the COVID-19 movement restrictions in Q4 2020 until Q2 2021 had halted the recovery of domestic passenger traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInternational passenger traffic remains marginal due to the ongoing international border closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDespite the current low passenger traffic numbers, the near-term biggest anticipated travel trend is an increase in the domestic, short-haul travel by fully vaccinated passengers,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of cargo, MAVCOM said the total volume expanded by 80.4 per cent y-o-y in Q2 2021 due to high demand for vaccines, medical equipment, personal protective equipment, electrical and electronic components as well as the solid growth seen in e-commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It anticipated air cargo traffic in 2021 to expand by between 26.5 per cent and 28.2 per cent y-o-y and subsequently recover to pre-crisis levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (NNN-Bernama) — The Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) has revised its 2021 passenger traffic forecast downwards, expecting a contraction of between 77.0 per cent and 80.2 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), equivalent to between 5.3 million and 6.1 million passengers. This was significantly lower compared to the 18.9 million-20.6 million passengers previously projected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":22535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}