Weight based market share
The chart below shows how much home carriers rely on their home region market and how this has changed from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. For each region, it shows the market share of airlines from that same region in…
Worldwide tonnage dropped -3% YoY
To measure the impact of the war in the Middle East on the air cargo industry, we have compiled the chart below. The figures are derived from WorldACD’s air cargo database and illustrate the Year-on-Year change in chargeable weight –…
How much of global air cargo is directly impacted by the war in Iran?
To assess the impact on supply chains, we looked at the air cargo flows most directly affected by airspace closures and reduced flight activity in the Middle East. Our air cargo market database shows that 21% of worldwide air cargo…
Understanding Air Cargo Trends: A Long-Term Perspective
The chart presents chargeable weight growth across origin regions, comparing trends over the past decade (2015-2024), the last five years (2019-2024), the past year (2023-2024), and the first seven weeks of 2025. Key takeaways: Sustained Growth: Asia Pacific and Central…
China retains its position as the top-ranked origin country for air cargo
A bump chart is a specialized line chart used to visualize changes in rank or performance over time. The image below shows a bump chart tracking the ranking of the top air cargo origin countries in 2010, 2015, 2020, and…
Expanding data product portfolio
We are expanding our data product portfolio with a new Weight Forecast, offering a clear, reliable view of near‑term air cargo demand across global markets and for multiple O&D levels. We foresee a steady +2.7% global growth in 2026, as…
Air cargo growth was anything but uniform in 2025
Shifts in demand, capacity, trade flows, policy changes, and regional dynamics created very different stories across the world. We created a visual tour showing Year-on-Year outbound growth for selected origin countries (2025 vs. 2024), based on data inputs from 150…
Looking back at 2025
At WorldACD, we kick off the new year by looking back at 2025. December closed with a +6% increase in chargeable weight compared to the same month in 2024. This pushed global Q4 growth to +5% – matching Q3 and…
WorldACD’s chargeable weight outlook for 2025
At the TIACA Executive Summit in Hong Kong this week, WorldACD presented the latest trends in the air cargo market. We also shared our outlook for 2025, both globally and for markets originating from the Asia Pacific region. The bar…
Worldwide weight and revenue performance in 2025
Despite ongoing challenges and geopolitical twists & turns, the global air cargo industry has demonstrated solid growth in the first five months of 2025. Worldwide chargeable weight increased by +4% compared to the same period last year. Even the month…