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

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

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

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Capacity Remains Trapped As Major Markets Remain Closed.

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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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The eighth consecutive week of capacity growth takes us to 63.2 million seats a ...

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Optimism continues to build in the recovery with weekly capacity increasing ...

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We may not have realised it at the time and it certainly didn’t feel that ...

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Last week we were very close, this week we have broken through the 50 million ...

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During two weeks in March, global capacity was falling at around three million ...

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At last a quiet week in terms of capacity changes; at least at the headline ...

Its been a record breaking positive week for weekly capacity growth; we have ...

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Some five million more scheduled seats were removed by airlines around the ...

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In the last seven days just over 20 million scheduled seats have been removed ...

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One of the beautiful things about aeroplanes is that they can broadly fly ...

The welcomed addition of another 2.9 million scheduled seats (18,200 flights) ...

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One in Four Seats Cancelled The last week has seen unprecedented levels of ...

Ultra-Low-Cost Creates Legacy Implications The battle amongst Europe’s low-cost ...

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The grounding of the B737Max continues and the commercial damage for airline ...

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It’s a wonderful idea, to create an aviation objective of “letting the common ...

Four teams from the same country contesting the finals of Europe’s top ...

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Much has been made of the Single African Air Transport Market Agreement (SAATM) ...

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It seems that even the most mature markets are capable of a growth spurt. The ...

It’s an ambitious target to increase your visitor numbers by some nine million ...

Yet again, London Heathrow is the most internationally connected airport in the ...

Over fifty years in the making, probably ten more to go and subject to lots of ...

A typical Northern Hemisphere summer brings record braking temperatures, yearly ...

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With the largest scheduled aviation database on the planet we’ve combined our ...

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