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

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

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

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 ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping the Brand Alive Sometimes called ‘boomerang flights’, a number of well ...

Hainan Island in China, along with its airports, has seen a duty free shopping ...

The need for schedule synchronisation The airline industry has witnessed ...

UK's Busiest Route in April 2021 is Isles of Scilly to Land's End The fact that ...

This week the Tasman Travel Bubble takes effect, allowing scheduled air travel ...

At OAG we’ve spent a year trying to understand how air travel will evolve ...

Does it matter when airlines operate different aircraft types on a route? In ...

The annual surge in summer visitors to Spain pre-COVID may have resulted in ...

Helping Passengers Make Greener Choices A year ago OAG published its first ...

Although air travel markets have undergone unprecedented disruption in 2020, ...

This month global scheduled airline capacity (seats) is down by 47% compared to ...

It may seem obvious that we can use past travel trends and travel patterns to ...

Often referred to as the world’s largest mass migration, Chunyun, or the Spring ...

Will they? Won’t they? The Tokyo Olympics didn’t happen in 2020 and now the ...

Hard times for regional airlines but not without opportunities News broke this ...

OAG’s latest review of the World’s Top 20 Airlines – Take Off provides ...

While the past four or five months have been tough times for airlines and ...

The past 30 weeks have seen the number of cancelled flights go through the roof ...

Understanding how passengers flow around the global airline network is vital ...

“Unprecedented” is a word we’ve heard a lot over the past 5 months. It’s a term ...

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No part of the world is immune from the impact of COVID-19. Aviation in South ...

Consumers fearful while industry insiders more confident about travel ...

In the last week alone round 50 million seats were removed from OAG’s airline ...

One of the questions during last weeks’ OAG webinars was from a New York-based ...

As aviation starts what increasingly looks like a long and slow recovery ...

Measures taken by airlines and airports to reduce the likelihood of ...

Research and Insight from OAG’s latest webinar As we move from crisis mode to ...

How low can we go? Which airlines will fare better? What is appropriate ...

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  It’s unusual for the announcement of a new airline to be greeted with as much ...

  Last week a British Airways Boeing 747 beat the record for a subsonic ...

  One of the repeated comments regarding the recent near demise of UK regional ...

  Between February 2nd and February 3rd 2020, the daily World Health ...

  As environmental concerns gather momentum, the focus on air travel’s ...

This month Eurostar, the iconic high-speed rail service between London and ...

Great Circle Routes are fundamental to understanding how airplanes fly between ...

Fashion is all about keeping up with the new and, for some, taking the lead ...

In July 2019, Spirit Airlines issued an Investor Update which explained how ...

It’s a term peculiar to the aviation industry and refers to the leasing of an ...

Amidst the sadness this week at the loss of a heritage brand from the UK plc ...

Adelaide Airport has reinforced its position as one of Australia’s fastest ...

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Half of all Chinese who live in the US reside in either California or New York, ...

Last December, United announced its biggest ever international network ...

The conventional measure for understanding punctuality in the aviation industry ...

Having looked like a certainty, and then not, by the end of June the ...

The availability of more data than ever before has given the aviation industry ...

The biggest airports often get the most attention but, as our recent North ...

Seven airports in Florida are amongst the fastest growing in North America.  ...

Croatia. Northern Ireland. Iceland. Morocco. What do each of these destinations ...

Chile’s anti-trust approval of the American Airlines-LATAM Group joint venture ...

The US-China aviation market has stagnated. For the first time in years growth ...

How differences in route market share translate to yield differences for ...

Vienna has a reputation as a solid market. Solid in that it ranks among the Top ...

Traditionally, purple has been a colour associated with kings and in the Indian ...

Competition is hotting up between airports serving the Greater Bay Area of ...

Many of the fastest growing airports in the United States can link their ...

The Lonely Planet Guide describes Delhi as a place where time travel is ...

Operating to a schedule becomes increasingly difficult when the sheer volume of ...

2018 is the year that Russia gets to showcase its footballing prowess and ...

It’s always sad to see an airline cease operations and next week Air Berlin ...

The first direct service from Kigali, Rwanda to London starts at the end of May ...