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The Largest Air Passenger Markets of 2034 are in Asia and South America

Dan Peltier

Photo Credit: Passengers line up to get boarding passes in Terminal C at DFW Airport on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in DFW Airport, Texas.  Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT / Max Faulkner

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China's forecasted growth to become the largest and one of the fastest growing markets in twenty years correlates to the growth we're already seeing at destinations and airlines around the world.

In twenty years China is poised to become the world’s largest air passenger market by traffic, but the U.S. will continue rivaling it until 2030. By then, the U.S. will move to the number two spot, and over the next 20 years will carry 18.3 billion passengers and China will carry 16.9 billion. India, Japan, Brazil and Indonesia will all follow China, a new International Air Transport Association (IATA) report found. The report analyzes passenger flows across 4,000 country pairs for the next 2

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