Air transport registered carrier departures | Papua New Guinea – yearly data, chart and table

Number of civil aircraft departures in Papua New Guinea in 2021 amounted to 34 007, which is 7.25% less than in 2020, when it was  36 664. It has been falling in this country for already 2 years in a row. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) statistics, since 1975, this indicator has increased in 1.81 times. The lowest number of air transport departures was recorded in 2003, with a value of 17 704. The maximum in Papua New Guinea was in 1989, when it reached 71 400 departures.
The air transport data represent the total (international and domestic) scheduled traffic carried by the air carriers registered in a country. For statistical uses, departures are equal to the number of landings made or flight stages flown. A flight stage is the operation of an aircraft from take-off to its next landing. A flight stage is classified as either international or domestic. International flight stage is one or both terminals in the territory of a State, other than the State in which the air carrier has its principal place of business. The air transport data represent the total (international and domestic) scheduled traffic carried by the air carriers registered in a country.