Travel Retail

July 2025 Forecast Update

by Sam Morrow|07 July 202507 July 2025| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Growth rates for 2025, by any historical standard, are exceptionally high and the conventional explanation for these levels is that so many airports h.....

May 2025 Traffic Tracker

by Jane Robinson|02 July 202502 July 2025| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Welcome to the Air4casts Traffic Tracker, a monthly update on the latest air passenger data actuals gathered exclusively for DFNI by Air4c.....

US May Air Arrivals

by Jane Robinson|17 June 202517 June 2025| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Not good news but not supporting the excoriation of Trump policies that some of the public analysis of previous months might have indicated. The probl.....

Download the New Air4casts iPhone App Today

by Susan Kennedy|25 April 202525 April 2025| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

We are delighted to let you know that the latest Air4casts iPhone app is now available to download from the App Store.Designed for busy Travel Retail .....

Canada's Land Arrivals in Freefall

by Jane Robinson|26 March 202526 March 2025| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The dramatic effect on Canadian border stores of tariffs and annexation threats can now be seen in February’s official land border crossings from th.....

Sunglasses Category Retail Reach

by Jane Robinson|26 November 202426 November 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

One of the key inputs to any business plan is passenger reach by travel retailer.In our November Sunglasses category bulletin Air4casts examines the f.....

Avoid the Travel Retail Guessing Game - Real Time Traffic Data Updated Daily

by Jane Robinson|17 September 202417 September 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

A unique co-operation between ACI and Air4casts provides authentic access to the actual traffic data for international, domestic and total passengers .....

The US Land Border Market in July

by Sam Morrow|10 September 202410 September 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The July data for US land borders, just released, shows that some 21 million people entered the country over land during the month which in broad term.....

Reviewing the International Recovery

by Ian|04 September 202404 September 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Uploaded to client sites today, a scan of the top 100 international countries indicates that 39 of them will fail to push their full year 2024 passeng.....

June Internationals up just 1% on 2019

by Jane Robinson|13 August 202413 August 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Today Air4casts examines the June slowdown in the rate of international air passenger growth. The results come directly from the 1300 plus .....

Air Travel Demand Becoming more Price Elastic

by Emma Wiseman|05 August 202405 August 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The latest forecast updates based on June actuals have, today, been uploaded to subscriber web sites. The 2024 forecast by region is higher.....

A Tale of Two Cities

by Jane Robinson|08 February 202408 February 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

A Tale of Two Cities... ...and two major international airports which back in 2019 found themselves at opposite ends of the world’s top 20. .....

The Affluent Chinese Traveller Survey

by Emma Robinson|05 February 202405 February 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Back after the Covid years, the Air4casts quarterly rolling survey of 1000 affluent Chinese travellers returned in full in Quarter 4 of last year to t.....

Year of the Dragon Breaks all Hainan Records

by Emma Robinson|02 February 202402 February 2024| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The best Chinese New Year since records began is the message from Hainan’s biggest airport, Haikou Meilan. Passenger numbers at the airport this.....

Hainan Island Visitors Soar almost 25% over 2019

by Susan Kennedy|28 March 202328 March 2023| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Uploaded today to the China Domestic module on client sites, the January and February Hainan tourist numbers are up almost a quarter on the same .....

US Question: Is Long-Haul Back?

by Sarah Robinson|11 April 202211 April 2022| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

US Question: Is Long-Haul Back? The strength of US demand for travel to leisure destinations throughout Latin America is well documented. The state.....

February Air Traffic Review

by Emma Robinson|07 April 202207 April 2022| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

1150 Airports have now declared their total passenger numbers for the month of February. All data comes from the Air4casts Traffic Control module. .....

Delhi Breaks the Asia/Pacific Mould

by Sarah Robinson|17 December 202117 December 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Since the month of July Delhi’s international passengers have been on a steady and welcome upward path. Since the middle .....

Rapidly Accelerating Improvement in International Travel

by Jane Robinson|13 August 202113 August 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

With 250 airports already on the Air4casts system with their full July PAX numbers, today’s Air4casts bulletin looks at the rapidly accelera.....

Latest August Forecast Update

by Ian Robinson|05 August 202105 August 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The latest monthly forecasts for airports, terminals, nationalities, routes and airlines have today been uploaded to client sites. Read on for the.....

980 International Airports with May Data

by Emma Robinson|30 June 202130 June 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Air4casts’ subscribers may now access the May international actuals for some 980 airports and: âœ“ broadly the news is good.....

China Domestic Travel in April

by Ian Robinson|20 May 202120 May 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The latest domestic passenger data for Chinese airports in April provides an excellent indicator of market developments and trends with one import.....

May Forecast Update

by Ian Robinson|04 May 202104 May 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

The latest May forecasts for 1500 airports have today been uploaded to client sites. Today's Air4casts bulletin examines the outlook by region.....

Summer in Europe: The Retailers to Watch

by Emma Robinson|15 March 202115 March 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Because anecdotal evidence of moves towards liberalisation of travel in Europe is growing daily, the question arises: which of the .....

American Overseas Travel Hits Covid Era High

by Jane Robinson|08 January 202108 January 2021| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

Hot off the press from the US government is the news that 1.7 million American passport holders took an international flight out of the US in Dece.....

Good News from the USA

by Charlotte Cooper|18 December 202018 December 2020| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

From the 150 airports who have already declared their international passenger data for the month of November there is: âœ“ undoub.....

Positive News from November Flight Data

by Emma Robinson|02 December 202002 December 2020| Canadian visitors, land borders, retail reach by passengers, Lagardere, Avolta,

There are important regional pockets which continue to suggest that the single largest impediment to the recovery of air travel is the policies of.....