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

• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

• Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global airlines industry grew by 11.3% in 2007 to reach a value of $429.9 billion.

In 2012 the industry is forecast to have a value of $711 billion, an increase of 65.4% since 2007.

The industry grew by 5.6% in 2007 to reach a volume of 2,076 million passengers.

In 2012 the industry is forecast to have a volume of 2,362 million passengers, an increase of 13.7% since 2007.

The domestic segment dominated in the global airline industry and accounted for 1.4 billion passengers in 2007, equivalent to 66.5% of the industry's overall volume.

The Americas region is the largest airline industry in the world accounting for 51.1% of the global industry's value.

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• Spot future trends and developments

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Market Definition

The airlines industry comprises passenger air transportation; both scheduled and chartered, but exclude air freight transport. Industry volumes are defined as the total number of passengers enplaned at all airports within the country or region. Industry value is defined as the total revenue obtained by airlines from transporting these passengers. This avoids the double-counting of passengers. All currency conversions in this profile were carried out using constant 2007 average annual exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprise Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US.

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

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.