AIRLINE FREQUENCY AND CAPACITY STATISTICS

HOW MUCH AIRLINE CAPACITY IS SCHEDULED THIS WEEK?

This chart shows the most recent weekly global (domestic + international) , domestic and international airline capacity. The dotted line represents capacity in the airlines' future schedules for the next 11 weeks. 

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WHICH TWO COUNTRIES VISIT EACH OTHER MOST?

• As we saw last month, all of the Top 20 country pairs have seen capacity increase this July compared to last year.
• European destinations feature in 11 of the Top 20 as the peak summer holiday season gets underway. Markets showing the strongest growth in Europe are Italy - Spain, which is up by 16.0%, Germany - Spain with an increase of 8.8%, and Germany - Italy which is up by 16.1%. Whilst this may be partly the Euros effect, Germany is also a strong outbound leisure market for Italy and Spain.  
• Strong growth continues in parts of Asia, with Japan - South Korea up by 25.1% on last July, and China - Japan having doubled as recovery continues there.  
• China - Thailand and China - South Korea are also experiencing strong growth which will be welcome relief to both countries as the outbound Chinese traveller is an important part of the tourism market in both countries. 

WHICH WORLD REGION HAS MOST FLIGHT CAPACITY?

• Global capacity reaches its peak this month as the busiest month of the year. Capacity will hit 545.5m seats which is a 6.7% increase on last July.
• All regions are seeing capacity increase this month, with the exception of Central America where there is a slight reduction of 1.3%.  
• The fastest growing regions in percentage terms are Upper South America where carriers are increasing capacity by 15.7%, equivalent to 1.3m additional seats compared to July 2023.  This is being driven primarily by growth in Colombia and Peru.
• Central Asia also continues to record strong growth, up 14.9% on July 2023.
• In terms of volume growth however, the largest increases are in North East Asia with 8.4m extra seats, Western Europe with 7m additional seats and North America where carriers have added 6.7m more seats this July. 

All data is sourced from OAG Schedules and is for the current month and previous months stated per chart. Data is unadjusted for the leap year effect. 

The categories are defined below:

1. The scheduled flight counter shows the number of flights in the schedule from the first day of the year up until the end of the current week.
2. Weekly airline capacity shows total global (international + domestic) capacity, international capacity and domestic capacity, measure in seats. It is plotted weekly with a forward view of filed scheduled capacity for the 11 weeks ahead, showing the overall 3 months forward-looking position.
3. Top 20 Airlines are the 20 largest global airlines by flights based on the current month.
4. Top 20 Country Pairs are those international country pairs with most seat capacity based on the current month.
5. Domestic Markets are the 10 largest markets by seats.
6. Seats by Region is seat capacity for the current month to, from and within each global sub region.