Press Releases 2007
Flights & capacity continue to increase year-on-year
21 September 2007
- Strong growth in flights and seat offer across Europe
- 24% more low cost seats offered globally year-on-year
- Significant transatlantic growth
The world’s airlines will operate 2.47 million flights and offer a total of 295.1 million seats in September 2007 according to the latest statistics from OAG BACK Aviation Solutions, a division of flight information and data solutions company Official Airline Guide (OAG). This represents an increase of 4% and 6%, respectively, compared to the same month last year.
The number of operations within Europe will grow by 6% year-on-year and capacity will increase by 9%. As a result there will be 619,000 flights available within the European market in September with a total seat capacity of 73.5 million.
International traffic to-and-from Europe will also experience a significant increase of 8%, while capacity is expected to rise by 7%. Significantly growth to-and-from Eastern Europe will be 9% and 14%, respectively. In September 2007, airlines will operate 62,000 flights and offer 7.3 million seats to-and-from this growing market. Equally significant is the 9% increase in the number of flights and the 12% increase in available seat capacity within the European Union (EU27).
Transatlantic traffic is expected to grow by 9% in September 2007 with airlines planning to offer a total of 7.4 million seats, 655,000 more than the same period last year. London Gatwick (LGW), Madrid (MAD), Rome Fiumicino (FCO) and New York Kennedy (JFK) are among the major airports that will contribute to this growth. London Gatwick in particular will experience a 14% rise in the number of its transatlantic operations and a 9% increase in the number of seats offered to-and-from the US and Canada.
Nick Salter, Sales Director OAG BACK Aviation Solutions, commented:
“Although growth between Asia/Pacific and Western Europe is more modest than other routes at just 2% overall, some hubs serving this route such as Hong Kong and Seoul show a much higher than average growth at 13% and 23% respectively. The same is true between Asia/Pacific and the US and Canada where Shanghai Pu Dong, Beijing and San Francisco are helping to drive growth in transpacific operations."
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