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Air Transport and Tourism: More and More Serious Growing Pains

by Eric Heymann, Marcel Stechert, Deutsche Bank
November 26, 2018
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The FINANCIAL — International aviation is booming. Global passenger air travel looks set to expand by almost 7% p.a. on average between 2003 and 2018, as households increasingly like to travel.

This trend is supported by rising incomes and the long-term decline in real air travel costs. Only a few decades ago, flying was regarded as pure luxury. By now, however, air travel has become affordable for the middle class, which is growing around the world. Fierce competition between the airlines, more efficient aircraft, a larger number of flight connections, the expansion of airport infrastructure and better transparency of fare prices thanks to online portals have contributed to this development.

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At the same time, business travel has been growing quite steadily on a global scale.

In recent years, air transport has grown at above-average rates in the Middle East (by c. 10% per year between 2011 and 2018) and in the Asia-Pacific region (+8.5% p.a.). For the Middle East, this development can be explained by the quick expansion of Gulf airlines and airports. And in Asia-Pacific, air travel is propped up by the wide-spread uptrend in local incomes and pent-up demand for air travel. In North America, air transport has been growing at a much lower rate since 2011, at just above 3% p.a.

The US in particular are a relatively mature market, as flying has been a common means of transport for decades. In addition, consolidation between airlines has already made considerable progress in North America. And less fierce competition tends to reduce the number of flight connections and downward pressure on fares. In fact, airlines have made considerably higher profits in North America than in other regions during the last few years.

In Europe, air transport growth has been only slightly below the global average since 2011, which is remarkable, seeing that the market is already quite mature.

Significant increase in capacity utilisation

Even as transport volume in international aviation has risen, capacity utilisation has increased steadily over the last few years as well. For example, the global average passenger load factor recently amounted to more than 81%, i.e. 10 pp more than 15 years ago. In Germany and Europe, insolvencies of several internationally active airlines boosted capacity utilisation for the remaining airlines in 2017. However, expansion of air transport volume slowed in 2018, because a number of planes were temporarily unavailable.

During the summer of 2018, capacity bottlenecks at numerous airports caused flight delays and flight cancellations. Strikes, restrictive operating times at a number of airports, security check bottlenecks and singular events such as extreme weather conditions made the situation even more difficult. Overall, the number of airport passengers in Germany is expected to grow “only” by 3% this year, down from 5% in 2017.

Capacity expansion necessary; rising expenses and consolidation to be expected

If, in any given sector, demand is growing steadily and capacities are limited, at least during certain seasons or at certain locations, it makes economic sense to expand stretched capacities or to increase prices. In the aviation sector, several players are responsible for capacity development. Any airport infrastructure expansions (such as new runways or terminals) or changes to the operating times usually depend on decisions made by or at least involving policymakers. Air traffic controls and passport and security controls are a political issue as well, at least to some extent.

Airport capacities may be increased improving the efficiency of security control, baggage handling or boarding procedures or by shortening distances for transit passengers. All this comes into the responsibility of airport operators. And finally, the airlines themselves can improve the system’s performance, for example by deploying their aircraft more efficiently or optimising the flight schedule.

While airlines are likely to pass on part of their higher expenses to their clients via higher fares, general price hikes based “only” on higher demand and limited capacities should remain an exception and occur only on connections where competition is scarce. Overall, competition between the airlines suggests that none of them is likely to reap excess returns in the long run.

Trends and price competition in aviation may lead to “overtourism”

Air transport growth has resulted in higher capacity utilisation in related sectors, such as tourism. At some particularly popular destinations, including several metropolises in Europe, the limits of (socially accepted) growth appear to have been reached. This phenomenon is often called “overtourism”. These destinations are currently discussing ways to redirect or reduce visitor flows because more and more local residents are no longer willing to put up with the negative effects of tourism.

Tourism remains on a growth course

To some extent, the overtourism phenomenon is caused by the fact that flying has become affordable or even cheap. At the beginning of 2018, low-cost carriers had a share of roughly 30% in overall air travel in Europe, up from 24% at the beginning of 2011. Of course, other factors contribute to overtourism, too, for example online portals which have specialised in providing private accommodation.

As a result, the supply of relatively cheap accommodation has ballooned in many cities – and intensified bottlenecks on the local housing markets. In addition, more and more people go cruising. However, residents of popular coast towns have become skeptical about cruise tourists, who tend to come on shore in droves, but do not spend much locally.

Still, any efforts to limit or even scale back tourism are a tightrope walk for the economies of these cities and regions. The World Travel & Tourism Council recently found that holiday or business travel often makes up a high single-digit or even two-digit percentage of a city’s local GDP. In addition, numerous people work in tourism-related sectors. It will not be easy to find a compromise between the contrary interests of the local tourism industry and the people suffering from overtourism.

Sector growth runs counter to climate protection goals

The expected expansion of the aviation and tourism sectors runs counter to international climate protection goals, at least as long as it is based on the currently available technologies. If policymakers were really serious about their official climate goals, they would have to take much stricter measures to limit air transport growth.

So far, however, they are not willing to tell their voters that this is necessary. And remember that carbon emissions from international aviation are not allocated to the emissions budgets of individual countries. Ultimately, it would probably not go down well with voters if air travel became so expensive that only prosperous people could afford it. Outside Europe, not many regulatory measures have been taken to reduce the negative environmental impact of air transport.

 

 

 

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