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Air navigation service providers.
3,846
Commercial airports.
24,911
Commercial aircraft in service, 80% of which are jets. The rest are propeller aircraft.
689m
Global aviation produced 689 million tonnes of CO2 in 2012.
70%+
Aircraft today are more than 70% more fuel-efficient than the first jets.
12% of fuel wasted 79%
Industry has been asking European governments to implement the Single European Sky, consolidating air traffic control across Europe. This would reduce CO2 by 12%.
$209Bn 12%
The amount airlines paid for fuel in 2012 — 33% of costs.
2%
Aviation’s share of global CO2 emissions.
Airlines on average operate with 79% of their seats full — greater than coach (60%), rail (40%) and car (30%) travel.
Aviation accounts for around 12% of all transport emissions.
The number of people living in areas impacted by aircraft noise in the USA reduced from 7 million in 1975 to fewer than 300,000 in 2009, despite the large increase in air traffic.
56.6 m
Jobs supported by aviation: 8.36 million within the industry. The rest are through the supply chain and tourism made possible by aviation.
Air transport provides vital lifelines to communities in remote parts of the world, including island states.
Lifelines
AFRICA: 16,500 MID-EAST: 40,000 ASIA-PAC: 192,300
NORTH AMERICA: 85,700 EUROPE: 99,700 LAT-AM: 48,600 CIS: 15,200
PILOTS: 498,000
When disaster strikes, aviation can rapidly move relief supplies disaster zones.
Emergency
1.5 million 3.5 x
livelihoods in Africa depend on trade in air freighted fruit, vegetables and flowers to the UK alone.
$26 Bn
spent by airports on construction in 2010 — creating jobs and boosting local economies.
Aviation jobs are, on average, 3.5 times more productive than other jobs.
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If aviation were a country, it would rank 19th by GDP.
$2.2 Tn
of global economic activity is supported by air transport.
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Cost to the global economy of the week-long shutdown of European aviation due to the icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.
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NORTH AMERICA: 97,900 EUROPE: 108,200 LAT-AM: 47,600 CIS: 18,000
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TECHNICIANS: 556,000
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Air transport carries around 35% of the value of world trade (that was $6.4 trillion in 2011), but only 0.5% of the volume.
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of the average Australian wage will buy you the lowest Sydney — London return airfare. In 1945, it took 130 weeks of the average wage.
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The subsidy given to rail each year by European governments.
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Kilometres flown by passengers in 2012.
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City-pair routes served by airlines.
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