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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Singapore Asia Pacific World Search Search: Global airlines to lose 9 billion dollars in 2009 AFP - Monday, June 8 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - The world's airlines are expected to lose nine billion dollars this year, industry body IATA has said, describing the current crisis as worse than the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. ADVERTISEMENT The losses -- almost double an estimate made just three months ago -- will come on the back of an estimated 80-billion-dollar drop in carriers' 2009 revenues due to plunging passenger and freight demand despite lower fuel costs. "There is no modern precedent for today's economic meltdown. The ground has shifted. Our industry has been shaken," said Giovanni Bisignani, director-general of the International Air Transport Association. Carriers in all regions are expect to report losses in 2009, with Asia-Pacific airlines -- once the brightest spot of the industry -- accounting for more than a third of the global total at 3.3 billion dollars. "This is the most difficult situation that the industry has faced," Bisignani said in a speech to industry leaders at the 65th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Kuala Lumpur. He called for greater liberalisation in the industry and warned that higher oil prices resulting from speculation when the world economy recovers could add further pain to the airline sector. In March, IATA had forecast 2009 losses at 4.7 billion dollars, but it was forced to drastically raise the figure as well as revise 2008 industry losses up to 10.4 billion dollars, from an earlier estimate of 8.5 billion dollars. Bisignani said the impact of the global financial and economic crisis was worse than that of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. After the attacks, global airline revenues tumbled by 7.0 percent and it took three years for the industry to recover despite a strong global economy, he said. "This time we face a 15 percent drop -- a loss of revenues of 80 billion US dollars -- in the middle of a global recession," he said. The industry is expected to generate 448 billion dollars in revenues this year, down from 528 billion dollars in 2008. "Our future depends on a drastic reshaping by partners, governments and industry. We cannot bear the cost of government micro-regulation, crazy taxation and partners abusing their monopoly power," the IATA head said. Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, played down the forecast. "Where did he get the figures? He is just estimating," he told AFP, adding that his company was still determined to order 200 new planes from 2009 to 2017 in addition to the 84 now in its modern fleet. Zhang Lin, vice director-general of China Southern Airlines, was still optimistic that his company would post growth this year. "We experienced two-digit growth last year. This year it will be one-digit growth because of the recession," he said. The airline industry has been among the worst hit by the economic crisis, which struck in the third quarter of last year after a US mortgage crisis spun out of control. The world's airlines are expected to lose nine billion dollars this year, industry body IATA said Monday in a drastic reassessment of the worst slump the industry has ever faced. The forecast is almost double an estimate made just three months ago, making the crisis worse than the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the International Air Transport Association said. Combined with the revised estimate that it lost 10.4 billion dollars in 2008, the industry now looks set to lose almost 20 billion dollars over two years. "There is no modern precedent for today's economic meltdown. The ground has shifted. Our industry has been shaken," IATA director-general Giovanni Bisignani told the association's annual meeting. Despite lower fuel charges, airlines will suffer from a drop of eight percent in passenger demand and 17 percent in cargo demand in 2009 as the global economy grapples with its worst recession since the 1930s. Even an economic recovery could complicate things if "greedy speculation" sends oil prices rising again, Bisignani warned. Carriers in all regions are expected to report losses in 2009, with Asia-Pacific airlines -- once the brightest spot of the industry -- accounting for more than a third of the global total loss at 3.3 billion dollars. "This is the most difficult situation that the industry has faced," Bisignani said, calling for greater liberalisation in the industry. In March, IATA had forecast 2009 losses at 4.7 billion dollars, but it was forced to drastically raise the figure as well as revise 2008 industry losses up to 10.4 billion dollars, from an earlier estimate of 8.5 billion dollars. Bisignani said the impact of the global financial and economic crisis was worse than that of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. After the attacks, global airline revenues tumbled by 7.0 percent and it took three years for the industry to recover despite a strong global economy, he said. "This time we face a 15 percent drop -- a loss of revenues of 80 billion US dollars -- in the middle of a global recession," he said. The industry is expected to generate 448 billion dollars in revenues in 2009, down from 528 billion dollars in 2008. "Our future depends on a drastic reshaping by partners, governments and industry. We cannot bear the cost of government micro-regulation, crazy taxation and partners abusing their monopoly power," the IATA head said. Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, played down the forecast. "Where did he get the figures? He is just estimating," he told AFP, adding that his company was still determined to order 200 new planes from 2009 to 2017 in addition to the 84 now in its modern fleet. But Shukor Yusof, an aviation analyst with Standard and Poor's Equity Research in Singapore, said "my own feeling is that it could even get worse, depending on how the next six months pan out." "Nothing can shake up the industry more than by looking at those numbers," said Shukor, who was attending the IATA conference. Despite the grim numbers, IATA said its members were still committed to controlling emissions, for which the fuel-guzzling industry has been criticised by environmentalists, even if the industry returns to growth. "Two years ago we set a vision to achieve carbon-neutral growth on the way to a carbon-free future," Bisignani said. "Today we have taken a major step forward by committing to a global cap on our emissions in 2020. After this date, aviations emissions will not grow even as demand increases." 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