Social and economic benefits of aviation

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Aviation is the real world wide web – a network of airlines, airports and air traffic control organisations that link the major cities and small communities of the world 24 hours a day with very advanced aircraft. Aviation provides some 33 million jobs worldwide and 8% of global GDP.

It allows people to have adventures in new countries, to relax on tropical beaches, to build business relationships and to visit friends and family. As our global economy grows ever more linked, aviation is the factor that brings people together. ATAG’s work on the social and economic benefits of aviation brings together a world of facts and figures to give policymakers and the industry the important global view of how our air travel creates jobs and drives economic growth.

View ATAG's publication The economic and social benefits of air transport, 2008