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With November comes the holiday season, colder weather, and a busy time in the ...

As the dust settles on the latest seasonal holiday and attention switches to ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index has dipped a little, to 103 points for ...

At times, change can occur gradually, slowly evolving over time. It often ...

One month into IATA’s winter season, we’ve taken a look at airline capacity ...

According to our latest data, on-time performance (OTP) in North America has ...

The next week will see US Airlines come under tremendous pressure as the rush ...

As the aviation sector continues its forward momentum, the transformative ...

While destinations and tourism authorities around the world await the return of ...

As the tourism industry in Southeast Asia reboots post-pandemic, one country ...

As the jack-o'-lanterns are extinguished, and the costumes put away, the realm ...

Leaders throughout Southeast Asia have made it a priority to attract more ...

In 2019, 256 new airlines entered the industry (listing scheduled capacity for ...

‘Mind the traffic!’: a phrase often associated with car journeys, but equally ...

OAG's 2023 Megahbus Index lists the world's most connected airports. In this ...

Expedia has released its annual Air Travel Hacks Report, which is packed with ...

In the global aviation market, we often talk about the largest, the longest and ...

The IATA summer schedule draws to a close toward the end of this month, so ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index stands at a new record high of 106 points ...

Last month offered a variety of technological innovations throughout the travel ...

Worldwide, the most punctual airport in September 2023 was Baoshan Airport ...

Asia’s international air capacity recovery has largely been a mixed bag due to ...

The Mediterranean is undoubtedly one of Europe’s most popular tourist ...

Commercial aviation is dominated by a series of hub airports where passengers ...

In May 2023, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) revealed that Saudi Arabia ...

SSIMs are the grease that oils the wheels of the airline industry, created in ...

Aviation is a regulated industry, and however much we like to think otherwise, ...

The world of aviation has always been about movement, connection, and ...

As we usher in a new era of technological advancements, the airline industry is ...

Friday 11th August 2023 was the busiest day for global aviation over the past ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 103 points for August 2023. Keep ...

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) are responsible for a third of the world’s scheduled ...

Before the pandemic disrupted the global tourism market, France was the most ...

Welcome to our recap of the top travel technology news from August 2023. As ...

We’ve all been there, you are in a rush to get somewhere and suddenly hit a ...

Every month we track the travel recovery in China, in this analysis we explore ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 102 points for July 2023. Keep reading ...

One of the notable features of the market post pandemic has been the high ...

In July 2023, a Mexican carrier has topped OAG’s on-time performance (OTP) ...

Every day, millions of flights, cancellations, and flight status changes are ...

Welcome to our recap of the top travel technology news from the past month. ...

It’s a very simple equation, match supply to demand or indeed keep supply a ...

This marks the sixth and final article in our content series exploring the ...

In the vision set out by the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s when the ...

Powered by OAG's world-beating aviation data, these infographics give an ...

This summer, international travel is firmly back on the agenda for Americans, ...

Longtail's innovative platform combines extensive amounts of data with its ...

In the good old days of travel, when flights departed on time and there were no ...

The world’s first commercial flight took off from St Petersburg, Florida on ...

The pandemic made airlines constantly reevaluate and pivot their strategies, ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 104 points in June 2023. Here we're ...

As the summer season reaches its peak over the next few weeks it seems that the ...

Behind the scenes there are many operations in place to ensure smooth and ...

Post-pandemic, new dynamics have been at play in the Italian long-haul market ...

As the summer season reaches its peak, the travel industry is abuzz with ...

This is the fifth article in our series decoding the fundamental technology ...

The last few weeks have created a perfect summer storm for the US majors as a ...

In the ever-evolving travel landscape, the relationship between airline loyalty ...

Every month we track the travel recovery in China. As the recovery is now ...

June's infographics, will help you to visualize how alliances' market share ...

Which are the biggest airlines in the US this month? Using our Schedules ...

An iconic destination and hot weather - it must be the week of the Paris Air ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 100 points in May 2023. Here we're ...

Regulatory approval for the recently announced Deutsche Lufthansa stake in ...

In South East Asia, Singapore’s Changi Airport experienced the highest ...

The world is in the midst of an AI revolution—one that’s just as disruptive as ...

Western Europe to the United States of America was one of the first long-haul ...

Flight Info Direct is a highly configurable aviation data platform - powered by ...

This is the fourth article in our series decoding the fundamental technology ...

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) now make up almost a third of global airline capacity; ...

Despite recent challenges, Türkiye has much to offer as a destination, and a ...

The challenges that Türkiye faced following the catastrophic earthquake in the ...

This month, our infographics, powered by OAG’s up-to-the-minute data, include ...

The law of unintended consequences seems to impact the airline industry more ...

For the past two summers airlines were pressured to build their schedules back ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 101 points in April 2023. Here we're ...

What is On-Time Performance? On-Time Performance (OTP) is a widely accepted ...

What Was the Pandemic's Impact on Airline Alliances? Airline alliances and ...

It seems like the pandemic is finally behind us and that aviation is returning ...

In this in-depth spotlight with IDG Connect, Nick Dearden, our CIO since 2019, ...

Airports in the Middle East have gained in popularity since before the ...

This is the third article in our series decoding the fundamental technology ...

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 prompted a transatlantic airplane ...

TripAI's platform uses algorithms and AI to predict fuel burn and emissions ...

Using up-to-the-minute OAG aviation data, we're able to bring our readers fresh ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 97 points in March 2023. Here we're ...

Our world is in a constant state of evolution, with technological advancements ...

This month we're using OAG's Schedules Analyser data to shine a spotlight on ...

Every Second (or Minute) Literally Counts Two point one seconds, the fastest ...

Travelers aren’t the only ones flying close to the sun this spring. The spring ...

This is the second article in our series decoding the fundamental technology ...

OAG's data provides up-to-the-minute insight into diverse areas of the aviation ...

When you have the whole world to look at - and masses of data at your ...

Hong Kong fully removed its strict border restrictions on 13th December 2022, ...

It appears that people are obsessed with measuring airlines. From the quality ...

Despite being no newcomer to the transatlantic market, JetBlue is taking steps ...

The aviation industry has faced ongoing pressures over the last 3 years, and ...

Our flight data provides insight into popular destinations for work and ...

Beijing-Shanghai (PEK-SHA) is the busiest domestic airline route in China this ...

The World Cup is now a distant memory, and the success of Morocco was a great ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 93 points (+4 pp MoM). Discover the ...

OAG's monthly aviation data highlights the global markets that are recovering ...

Attention is already turning to next year for the people working on Project ...

ChatGPT isn’t the only technology that made headlines last month. From ...

This article is the first in a series of monthly posts decoding the fundamental ...

Every day we seem to hear of shortages: tomatoes, electricity, micro-chips, and ...

In this article, John Grant discusses the possible sale of ITA Airways and the ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 89 points (+4 pp MoM) for the first ...

In the years before the pandemic Australia’s domestic aviation market had ...

OAG's aviation data is updated in real-time, which means we can share ...

OAG's monthly aviation data highlights the global markets that are recovering ...

The Virgin brand has always been different, a global phenomenon full of amazing ...

There are some established indicators of how confident the airline industry is ...

In 2022, we processed 1,156,122,591 flight status updates - that’s around 40 ...

Decision-makers in Travel Tech are currently contemplating which trends will ...

The new year has only just started, but news of innovation in travel technology ...

It feels apt to be writing this blog from the air above Scandinavia, as I ...

It’s not been an easy recovery for easyJet. While the market recovery in Europe ...

London Gatwick Benefits With New Services India is hot, to state the obvious, ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 86 points (+5 pp MoM) for December ...

Online assets known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) - unique, digital objects ...

The news that China removed quarantine requirements for inbound travelers and ...

Jim Dyer, Chief Commercial Officer of OAG recently led a group of experts ...

Just one year ago the aviation industry was in a very different position from ...

A new year is here and hopefully the travel recovery will continue through the ...

We’ve come to the close of another year in travel technology news. Each year, ...

Like many Asian countries, Japan has been experiencing a twin-track air ...

Japan finally lifting its stringent travel restrictions on 11th October 2022 ...

This week we are going to take a look at total airline capacity across the ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 81 points (-3 pp MoM) for November ...

2022 has been another year of ups and downs for Chinese aviation, at least in ...

China is back! Well at least for this week, which highlights how quickly ...

What does the future hold for Japan’s airlines? This is the first in a series ...

There has never been a period of such capacity change as we have seen during ...

Judging by the way that airlines are moving capacity up and down over the next ...

Travel providers are constantly analyzing their tech investments to best align ...

Airline Capacity Rises Above 90 Million Again Global airline capacity has once ...

This week global scheduled airline capacity – that is, the number of seats ...

The dizzy heights of summer when global capacity was over 100 million seats a ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 84 points (-2 pp MoM) for October 2022. ...

Working alongside developers to provide them with customizable access to our ...

The recovery across the travel industry is gaining steam, and hotels are ...

In the United States, changes to how we fly, which airlines we choose, and how ...

It may seem like a quiet period for the aviation industry with global airline ...

The world of travel technology continues to show no signs of slowing down as we ...

From booking, luggage, boarding to all the on-flight operations in between, ...

Returning to work after a two-week holiday and it’s good to know that at least ...

During November world leaders, and a multitude of others drawn from ...

If you’ve not heard about Vision 2030 it won’t be long before you do. Vision ...

So here we are, it’s officially the winter season, although the temperatures in ...

With Qatar soon to host the FIFA World Cup, the big three Middle Eastern hubs, ...

The winter season is nearly upon us and we are doing our best to shake off the ...

Expedia has released its annual Air Travel Hacks Report, which provides ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 86 points (+0 pp MoM) for September ...

Tokyo’s two airports, Narita and Haneda, have been vying for international ...

As the second quarter financial results for airlines begin to be finalised, for ...

Global airline capacity has bounced back as a combination of both lockdowns in ...

October is here, and before the world dives into fall, we’re taking a look back ...

And the World Cup Winner 2022 is...Dubai! The final pre-tournament matches have ...

Global airline capacity continues its steady descent, having passed back ...

This is the third and final post in our article series exploring how the ...

Three pieces of good news broke in Asia last week that, although not providing ...

After the hiatus of the past couple of years, OAG Megahubs is back! In a marked ...

The latest reopening of some commercial centres in China has resulted in a ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 85 points (+1 pp MoM) for August 2022. ...

This is the second post in our three-part series exploring how the world’s ...

As travelers return to the skies with regained confidence, the cruise industry ...

Here we take a deep dive into the travel recovery at three rival hub airports ...

This is our first post in a series of three articles delving deeper into how ...

After the summer season of 100 million seats plus a week, global airline ...

A summer filled with long-awaited vacations (and unexpected flight ...

Is This the Last Week of 100 Million Weekly Scheduled Seats? Although global ...

Another week of more than 102 million scheduled seats makes this the eighth ...

Ryanair is now the fifth largest airline in the world (in terms of capacity) ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 84 points (-2 pp MoM) for July 2022. ...

There are some interesting movements in the weekly capacity update from OAG, ...

JetBlue has finally reached a deal to buy Spirit Airlines after months of “will ...

Temperatures weren’t the only thing on the rise in July. Prices on everything ...

One thing we learned throughout the pandemic is that when you think things are ...

2022 is well underway and we have been as busy as ever adding more and more ...

In the week when the last A380 was delivered to Emirates, it seemed an ...

A modest half a million more seats week on week once again takes global ...

How Metaverse Travel Will Converge the Digital and Physical Travel Experience A ...

For the second consecutive week, global airline capacity has eased back with a ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 82 points (-1 pp MoM) for June 2022. ...

Despite some airports capping airline capacity without consultation in the last ...

Flight Status Data is now available via our cloud enabled solution, Flight Info ...

It came as no surprise that London Heathrow would have to take action on the ...

Technology has transformed how we travel and what we experience when we do. The ...

Confidence Building in China With Airbus Order This week saw several airlines ...

Despite rising inflation, the summer travel season outlook is strong. Global ...

Airlines Continue to Rebuild Capacity For the first time since January 2019, ...

Dohop is a Travel Technology company based in Reykjavik, Iceland. Founded in ...

This week’s airline capacity has settled at 99.9 million seats - so close and ...

Hopper is a leading travel app helping users book flights and hotels at the ...

USD 22 Billion in Emergency Loans for Aviation Chinese aviation has been given ...

As temperatures continue to soar in Europe, airline capacity has followed ...

The global Skift Travel Health Index is 81 points (+2 pp MoM) for May 2022. ...

Rather like an English batsman stuck in the nervous nineties, global airline ...

When Jet Fuel Prices Surge In May 2022 news outlets covered the story of ...

The past two weeks have seen a surge in cancelled flights at European airports, ...

The pandemic caused radical changes across the travel sector, lower passenger ...

Global airline capacity bounces back this week with airlines scheduling 95.2m ...

For something that does not physically exist airport slots receive a lot of ...

For the past two years, travelers have waited for the travel industry to swell ...

For the past month or two, the media have carried stories of flight disruption ...

In June 2022, British citizens had an extended bank holiday weekend to ...

Having failed to secure himself an invitation to the Queen’s Jubilee party this ...

Just over 10 years ago there was barely any market for travel between South ...

It has been a disappointing week for global airline capacity as total seats ...

In April 2022 the global Skift Travel Health Index is 77 points (+2 pp MoM). ...

Total scheduled airline seats this week remains above the 90 million mark, a ...

With the digital economy growing at a rapid rate, the aviation industry is ...

As We Hit 90 Million Seats… Shortages Create an Ongoing Challenge

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The pandemic fast-tracked the digital transformation plans for 77% of CEOs, ...

Rising capacity and eased restrictions are boosting recovery in the travel ...

It all happened at the weekend. Qantas finally confirmed Project Sunrise with a ...

Some of the many sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation because of the war ...

The first in a series of blogs focusing on the Middle East aviation market. ...

Chinese Airline Capacity Begins to Rebuild As travel restrictions continue to ...

Observing, as we do at OAG, the changes in global airline capacity week by week ...

Are the skies about to get a whole lot busier? OAG explores the emerging world ...

Last week we reported on a challenging week for the aviation industry as ...

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It was never going to be a straightforward recovery from the global pandemic ...

They say opposites attract and if that is the case, then this week’s approach ...

As we finish the first quarter of the year, global capacity has remained above ...

The air travel sector's relationship with biometric-based digital IDs started ...

The promise of warm weather ahead - combined with travel restrictions lifting ...

Tracking airline capacity has, for a long time, been the best measure of what ...

The first week of the season is like a typical April day, a bit of sunshine, ...

Airport retail has traditionally been a lucrative source of income for ...

As another Northern Hemisphere Winter Season draws to a close, this week’s ...

The Skift Travel Health Index provides a monthly update of travel performance ...

Two years ago, global airline capacity fell off a cliff; 21 million seats were ...

These are challenging times for the world and there are more important ...

The last week’s events in Europe have been deeply concerning for an industry ...

The escalation of events in the Ukraine are a tragic development at all levels ...

Here’s our take on the five biggest pieces of travel technology news we’re ...

The Skift Travel Health Index (previously called the Skift Recovery Index) ...

It’s been a very tough few years for the whole aviation industry and much of ...

The last two years have challenged the airline industry in so many different ...

One of the lessons from the global pandemic was never to miss an opportunity in ...

We’ve been here before but breaking through the 80 million mark this week is ...

The many re-formulations of travel restrictions that have been imposed by ...

Increasing Signs of Recovery in All Markets Global airline capacity has bounced ...

Does Take Off Really Use More Fuel Than Any Other Part of a Flight? It may be ...

Global Capacity Melts As China Prepares For Winter Olympics In normal times ...

Carbon emissions from flight operations have become a key metric for those who ...

At the end of January 2022, the price of jet fuel reached its highest point in ...

Every week for the last two years we have been providing a weekly update on the ...

The last two years have been awful for the whole travel and tourism industry ...

The Skift Recovery Index provides a monthly update of travel performance in 22 ...

Airline capacity continues to fall as Omicron spreads with 33 million seats now ...

Global airline capacity has fallen this week as the impact of travel ...

A data business can be described as a company whose primary concern is the ...

The devil really is in the data this week, or to be more precise it is behind ...

A year ago we looked back at our annual analysis, Megahubs Index and took a ...

OAG has been tracking airline capacity in the United States closely for a ...

Seats are not the same as passengers and just because aircraft fly, doesn’t ...

It feels a bit like Groundhog Day, or perhaps week or IATA season, as we close ...

2022 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the future of travel technology. ...

Welcome to the 2021 OAG Product Round-Up. As the year draws to a close and we ...

The Skift Recovery Index provides a monthly update of travel performance in 22 ...

On the face of it, the data looks slightly positive this week with capacity ...

Airlines and passengers crave connectivity now more than ever. As the industry ...

What we mean by an Aviation Recovery As we get towards the end of 2021 and ...

The year may soon be coming to an end, but travel technology news continues to ...

Despite the best attempts of the latest Covid-19 variant 'Omicron', and a ...

Does Network Stability Equal Network Profitability? Covid-19 has stretched the ...

There’s no doubt that Thailand’s tourism industry has suffered as a result of ...

Network Planning as Usual for Airlines ... At Least for Now It was always going ...

The overnight news of a new covid variant of concern, Omicron, discovered by ...

The great aviation recovery is underway, or more precisely - airline capacity ...

Aviation’s contribution to global emissions Aviation contributes to climate ...

Moving Backwards? Travel restrictions put in place to protect citizens in many ...

If last week was busy with IATA Slot, the Dubai Air Show and new aircraft ...

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Commitments, Challenges and Contradictions The COP26 climate negotiations ...

A busy week for the aviation industry sees the good and great meeting at the ...

US Airlines have a major role to play at Thanksgiving transporting literally ...

There’s daylight for less than six hours a day in the middle of winter in Oslo. ...

Through our exciting partnership with Snowflake, we can expose our data ...

A Welcome Injection of US$ 2.8 Billion For Transatlantic Carriers After more ...

The new Flight Information API is a core foundational component of OAG’s ...

OAG has joined forces with Snowflake, the global leader in cloud data ...

Over the past six months there have been numerous articles extolling the ...

As the IATA Winter Season starts there is plenty of good news around the globe ...

The last week of the 2021 summer season brings the usual mix of changes in ...

The travel market has gone through seismic changes over the past year and a ...

More Outbreaks and Travel Restrictions Through a long and patient period of ...

It seems that everything is positive for the aviation industry this week as ...

It’s no doubt that holiday and winter travel will look different this year. But ...

The last seven days have felt like things are beginning to get back to some ...

At the very start of the global pandemic airlines had to make rapid - and major ...

As the IAGA AGM commences today, there is an increasing feeling that the global ...

For ten of the past thirteen weeks, scheduled airline capacity from Russian ...

The Transatlantic Aviation Market Reopens in November and Scheduled Airlines ...

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Common Sense Prevails in London...at Last! No, not the reopening of the US ...

Finally, good news for every scheduled airline CEO in Europe and the United ...

Airline Capacity Continues Towards a Soft Landing The slow, but now steady, ...

The age of big data and the emergence of the data cloud inevitably saw the ...

Is there a Pattern to Island Recovery? For those of us in Europe it may feel ...

Global Airline Capacity Unlikely to Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels Before 2023 at ...

Changing Patterns of Travel Reflect Increase in Quasi Domestic and Migrant Work ...

Introducing the OAG Development Partner Programme. Over the past year we have ...

Africa’s ‘Lego’ Airline Proves Unbreakable It is only September, but the ...

Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the air travel market. Seating capacity fell roughly ...

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For a while I imagine many of us assumed this would be so: The more people were ...

Modest Weekly Growth Hides Longer-Term Trends The ups and downs of aviation’s ...

Financial Impact of the One-Way Road It’s fair to say that the airline industry ...

Outbreaks and Lockdowns Persist The news that China shut down much of its ...

Technology companies that push the boundaries of product innovation — like ...

Capacity Remains Trapped As Major Markets Remain Closed.

21 year old JetBlue starts its much heralded service between New York and ...

Global Capacity Gets Flushed Away…Again Last week’s marginal reductions in ...

It’s a summer of love for Greece as the masses head back to the one European ...

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Will Hero Joe Come to the Rescue? Marginal reductions in global capacity this ...

Global Capacity Descends Again… Global capacity once again slipped back week on ...

The aviation recovery is underway, well it is in some parts of the world and ...

Olympics 2021 Lead To A Sprint In Japanese Airline Capacity This is ...

Capacity settles at 79.8 million, a slight increase on last week of 1.5% with ...

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