IATA's assessment of premium and economy travel in October.

Key points:

• Premium traffic was just 2.3% higher in October compared to a year ago, down on the September result of 3.8%;
• Economy class travel was up 4.4% in October year-on-year, slightly weaker than September’s 5.0% growth;
• Hurricane Sandy was not the cause of weaker international travel in October, accounting for less than half a % point of the fall;
• In fact premium travel has been slowing for some months, with annualized growth of just over 1% since Q2;

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