ICAO Journal

No. 5

A time lapsed exposure of a night-time departure illustrates this edition of the Journal, a summary of the major developments in international civil aviation last year as well as airline traffic and financial forecasts for the 2005-07 period. The big surprise of 2004 was the extent to which air traffic rebounded from the recent years of stagnation. Included in this year's report is a commentary on the challenge of reporting and interpreting air transport statistics, which may be more of a science than most people appreciate (page 20).