Volkswagen Group sales near pre-pandemic levels as bottlenecks ease
BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen Group deliveries rose 12% to 9.24 million vehicles in 2023, it said on Tuesday, indicating a post-pandemic sales recovery as supply chain bottlenecks eased. The carmaker’s unit sales…
Traffic Deaths Decrease in First Half of the Year, Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
WASHINGTON, DC – Traffic deaths in the U.S. decreased by 3.3% in the first half of this year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The decline is notable but…
AirAsia’s operations to return to pre-pandemic level by Dec, says Capital A CEO
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Capital A Berhad, parent of Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, expects to see the carrier’s operations returning to pre-pandemic levels by December, Capital A CEO Tony Fernandes told Reuters on Monday.…
China bookings to return to pre-pandemic level by early 2024 – Agoda
By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019 numbers by…
Dubai DXB airport Q1 passenger traffic reaches 96% of pre-pandemic level
DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai’s main airport registered a 55.8% increase in passenger traffic in the first quarter of this year compared to last year, reaching 95.6% of 2019 pre-pandemic levels, operator Dubai…
RSV cases in US show signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality – CDC
(Reuters) – Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation is showing signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality in the U.S. after two years of irregular onsets and peaks, the Centers for Disease Control and…
Czech car producers power industrial growth in 2022 to pre-pandemic levels
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech industrial output returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, growing 1.7%, data showed, mainly due to car production, which is likely to struggle this year from supply-chain bottlenecks. It…
U.S. imports of containerized goods retreat to pre-pandemic level
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. imports of goods in ocean shipping containers in December fell to levels approaching those last seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report said on Tuesday. Demand…
Ryanair December traffic up 3% on pre-pandemic levels
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair flew 11.5 million passengers in December, up 3% on its previous pre-COVID high for the Christmas travel period, Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said on Wednesday. Ryanair…
U.S. road travel rises, nears pre-pandemic levels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department said vehicle travel rose by 0.1% in October to 285.9 billion miles as road travel is nearing pre-pandemic levels for the year. In recent months,…
Cathay Pacific Airways aims to return to pre-pandemic levels by end-2024
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Tuesday the group is on track to achieve target of operating up to one-third of pre-pandemic passenger flight capacity levels…
Cathay Pacific to reach 70% of pre-pandemic capacity by end-2023
(Reuters) -Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Monday it expected to operate 70% of its pre-pandemic passenger flight capacity by the end of 2023, up from a planned 33% by…
Airbus: aircraft services market to recover to pre-pandemic level by end-2023
PARIS (Reuters) – The aircraft services market will recover to its pre-pandemic level by the end of 2023 and double in value over the next 20 years, Airbus said on Thursday as…
Online European tourism bookings so far in 2022 higher than pre-pandemic
(Reuters) – Short-term rental accommodation booked online in the European Union increased above 2019 levels each month from February 2022 onwards, the European Union’s statistic office said on Tuesday. Short-stays booked online…
New York City office leasing surges; still below pre-pandemic levels
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s office market rebounded in the third quarter from a year earlier, though leasing remained below levels seen before the rise of remote…
Shell sees 2024 aviation fuel demand recovering to pre-pandemic levels
By Isabel Kua and Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Global aviation fuel demand is expected to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels of 300 million tonnes per year in the next one to two…
Outbound Asian tourists to hit pre-pandemic levels by 2024-Agoda CEO
(Refiles to add dropped letter in CEO’s name) By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Asian tourists are only expected to resume international travel at pre-pandemic levels gradually, by 2024, the new chief…
Japan’s average land prices rise first since pre-pandemic – govt
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese land prices rose in the 12 months to July 1 for the first time since before the pandemic, thanks to easing of measures to control…
U.S. coffee chains’ sales rise 10% to near pre-pandemic levels -report
By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sales by branded coffee shops in the United States increased 10% in the 12 months to June 2022 to reach $45.8 billion, a value that…
Lufthansa CEO says ticket prices won’t return to pre-pandemic levels
BERLIN (Reuters) – Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Monday that flight prices will never return to where they were before the pandemic, forecasting stable or increasing prices in future. Tickets…
Mexico’s economy seen reaching pre-pandemic levels in 2023, lagging peers -Fitch
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s economy is forecast to finally claw its way back to pre-pandemic levels sometime next year, ratings agency Fitch Ratings said on Friday, after COVID-19 ground the global…
U.S. Labor Day weekend travel volumes seen rebounding to pre-pandemic levels
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people traveling for the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels and possibly set new records in…
Singapore Airlines expects to inch closer to pre-pandemic capacity by 2022-end
(Reuters) – Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA) said it expects passenger capacity to reach about 81% of pre-pandemic levels by December as flyers rush to the skies after the easing of COVID-19 curbs.…
Colombia poverty declined in 2021, but still above pre-pandemic levels
BOGOTA – Poverty levels in Colombia fell last year versus 2020, amid an economic recovery in the Andean country, but have yet to return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic, the…
Brazil’s Multiplan CEO expects shopping center sector to surpass pre-pandemic levels
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s shopping mall sector is expected to grow 10% this year compared to 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jose Isaac Peres, mall operator Multiplan’s chief executive on…
Brazil real to keep close to pre-pandemic levels despite feeble economy: Reuters poll
By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES – Brazil’s real will keep trading close to its pre-pandemic levels in coming weeks, still riding a wave of positive sentiment that is strikingly at odds with…
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