aircraft (including systems, components,
airframes and engines).
» Air navigation service providers
employed an additional 47,000
people (3%).
The total impacts — including those from
the operations of the air transport sector
itself, the impact of the air transport sector’s
procurement of inputs of goods and services
from its supply chain, and the impact of
employees of the air transport sector and its
supply chain spending their wages — mean
the air transport sector supported 4.8 million
jobs (0.3% of economy-wide employment) and
contributed $265 billion to GDP in Asia-Pacific
(1.2% of economy-wide GDP).
In addition, travel and tourism supported