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?

• Almost all of the Top 20 country markets are seeing positive growth this September compared to last year. Only the UK-USA country pair has declined, down 1.8%.  
• Fastest growing this month is China - Japan where recovery continues apace, and carriers have increased year on year capacity by 74.7%.
• There is also strong capacity growth between Japan and South Korea, and strong double digit growth between Japan and Chinese Taipei.

WHICH WORLD REGION HAS MOST FLIGHT CAPACITY?

• Global capacity in September will be 505m, up 5.2% on last September which is in line with the trend of recent months. This year on year increase translates to 25m seats.
• North East Asia leads the way in the volume of seats and accounts for 6.5m of that increase, equivalent to an above average year on year growth rate of 6.3%.
• Western Europe is also recording strong growth of 5.6m additional seats, or 5.2%.  
• Fastest growing however is Upper South America where seat capacity has increased by 17.1%. 

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.