North America expected to pass APAC in daily flights: Asia-Pacific appears destined once again to slip behind North America by volume of tracked daily passenger jet flight arrivals as China’s drive to discourage holiday travel in the run-up to Lunar New Year takes its toll on passenger demand in the region, according to data and analytics company Cirium. Including both domestic and dramatically-curtailed international operations, seven-day rolling average flight arrivals at Asia-Pacific airports had declined to just over 13,000 by 1 February, down from December’s peak of nearly 20,000. North America meanwhile spent the second half of January holding steady at close to 13,000 daily…