this prices Air transportation Number of passengers increased by 25.1% In the second quarter compared to the same period in 2021 biggest annual increase Since the beginning of the series, in 2007, as reported this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Of the fifteen services sector activities for which INE calculates price indices, only four lowered annual rates of change in the second quarter and increased ten. In an activity (warehouse and storage) it remained unchanged. This is demonstrated by the Service Sector Price Index, whose purpose is to provide quarterly indices for producers of the development of the price of services provided to companies by each of the sectors.
In terms of annual increases, passenger air transportation stands out with a price difference of 25.1%. 16 points higher than the previous quarter; ad that increased its annual rate by more than 1.5 percentage points to -0.9%.
Among the activities that lowered their inter-annual rates, telecommunications, which decreased its annual rate by nine-tenths to -1%, and security and investigation activities with an annual rate of 2.9%, four-tenths lower than the previous quarter.