Airline frequency and capacity statistics

• Alaska Airlines continues to show strong frequency growth with 19.4% more flights year on year, as a result of the recent integration of Hawaiian Airlines into Alaska Airlines.  
• In Europe, Ryanair continues to grow, up 6.2% this month compared to last July, and the other major European airlines in growth this month are easyJet and Turkish Airlines, which are up 2.1% and 1.5% respectively.
• Across the top 20 airlines, three are reducing capacity by more than 3%; IndiGo is down 3.9%, All Nippon Airways is down 5.5% and Deutsche Lufthansa AG is down 9.9%.  

• While Emirates and Qatar Airways are down between 6% and 7% this month, this is significantly less than the reductions last month when both airlines were down between 15% and 16%, which suggests the Middle East situation is, to some degree, stabilising compared to recent months.

• In addition, Etihad Airways continues to show strong growth in ASKs, up 15.5% this month.

• Strong ASK growth is taking place amongst other carriers with Air China up 11% and the LATAM Airlines Group up by 10.9% year on year.

• Apart from Emirates and Qatar Airways, the only other carriers down this month in terms of Int.

• ASKs are Delta Air Lines, which is down 0.2% and United Airlines, which is down 1.5%.  

Where is most domestic air capacity this month?

• Similar to last month there is mixed performance amongst the world's largest domestic markets this month.
• The USA, India, Japan and Australia are all contracting, with India showing the most significant rate of decline, down 4.6% on last year.
• The strongest growth rate comes from Mexico, with an increase of 7.2% year on year, which is followed closely by Turkiye, which is up 7.1%.
• The market with the largest growth in seats is China, which is up 3.69 million seats (+4.7%), unlike last month when the Chinese domestic market was almost flat, up only 0.5%. 

Which two countries visit each other most?

• Spain - United Kingdom is the largest international country pair this month, with 6.4m seats, which up 470,000 on last year which is the largest increase in seat capacity within the top 20.
• In terms of growth rates, the China - Republic of Korea market is showing the largest growth rate, up 16%, this is followed by Italy - Spain and Japan - Republic of Korea which are up 12.5% and 11.2% respectively.
• There are three markets which are down more than 5% this month versus July 2025: India - UAE (-5.9%), Mexico - USA (7.8%) and Turkiye - United Kingdom (-9.8%).