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?

• Some of the country markets seeing the strongest growth start or end in China. China - Japan is up by 61.0% and China - Thailand is up by 49.6% as these markets continue to see recovery following the pandemic. Both of these markets remain around a quarter lower than their December 2019 capacity levels.
• Japan also features in two other Top 20 country markets, with strong growth taking place between Japan - South Korea (14.5%) and Japan - Chinese Taipei (18.9%).
• Only two of the largest international country pairs are contracting this month, with capacity between Canada and the US down by 2% year on year, and another US market - to the UK - has also seen capacity fall, by 5.6% this December vs last year.

WHICH WORLD REGION HAS MOST FLIGHT CAPACITY?

• Global capacity in December 2024 will reach 487.8m seats this December, an increase of 4.7% on last December.
• Carriers have added 21.8m seats across a range of regions including Asia Pacific (9.9m extra) and Europe (5.2m extra seats).
• The region seeing strongest growth is North Africa, where capacity has increased by 13.1% compared to last year and the rate of growth in Central Asia is also at a similar rate, with an increase of 12.6% on last December.
• Although growing fast, Central Asia remains the smaller region globally with 2.7m seats in December, just 0.5% of global capacity. 

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.