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To most parts of the world Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code is a ...

It’s been a frustrating year for the aviation industry, so in this headline ...

Airfares finally appear to be falling in markets around the world, as the last ...

As the IATA northern hemisphere winds down and airlines reflect upon a season ...

Not all airports are the same, and in the world of large airports it’s common ...

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) are an established and evolving part of the aviation ...

Welcome back to the last in our series of articles focused on the African ...

The missing piece of the pandemic recovery jigsaw was the reopening of China ...

It’s hard enough running an airline at the best of times and maintaining ...

Here is the last in our series of articles focused on the Middle East Aviation ...

Welcome to the second article of a 3-part series exploring the Middle East ...

Stand still in the airline industry and you will get left behind very quickly. ...

This is the first article of a 3-part series exploring the Middle East Aviation ...

The next big European football event, the UEFA European Football Championship, ...

And so, what we all expected has been formalized and SAS Scandinavian Airlines ...

Cast your minds back to 2019, a frequently referenced year as the pre-pandemic ...

Things change slowly in the aviation industry and it’s very rare to see a “step ...

It’s finally over. The IATA Winter Season has just a few more days to run and ...

Spain’s announcement of plans to switch domestic flights to rail services is ...

This week Ryanair released their Q3 financial results, and it was my turn for ...

Every airline and airport operations director starts the new year full of hope ...

An airline’s key marketing message is frequently built around the products ...

Every year Boeing’s executives hope that the next year will be better than the ...

In the ever-evolving realm of air travel, the coming year holds a multitude of ...

It’s been rumoured for quite some time, but as an early seasonal present to the ...

Aviation never rests, there are always scheduled services in the sky carrying ...

Data always points you in the way of valuable insights, and as the year comes ...

Against the backdrop of the Dubai Air Show and COP28, the aviation industry’s ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

Peeking over the wall to the end of the year tells you all you need to know ...

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 ...

Capacity Remains Trapped As Major Markets Remain Closed.

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

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 ...

This week’s data highlights once again just how frustrating and different every ...

The challenges of the airline industry are captured in this week’s data; ...

But 21.4 Million More Seats Removed From June to September Inventory Rather ...

Industry Breaks Through 70 million Capacity Per Week The airline industry has ...

US$ 5.4 Billion Of Revenue Risk For Major Airlines In a normal year, this is ...

Since last week saw some of the fastest capacity growth since January 2020, we ...

Following last week’s lack of activity, airlines have been adding capacity back ...

We all want to get back to normal, business travellers flying around the globe ...

80% of the World’s Largest International Markets Remain at Less Than 10% of ...

Domestic Airline Capacity Heats Up This Summer As The Market Changes It is an ...

The UK’s Green List for Travel Polite words and phrases such as “a step in the ...

Ryanair announces a US$989 million loss and apparently, things are getting ...

Although global capacity remains broadly flat week-on-week with some 62.1 ...

It is the most important part of travel, but probably the only thing that you ...

Airlines Eagerly Awaiting Traffic Lights to Arrive, Will This Be The ...

Domestic airline capacity, and TSA volumes, a proxy for flight demand have ...

The headline numbers suggest that global airline capacity has seen a slight ...

It's only 40,000 seats in each direction, or just 0.065% of global airline ...

Even by aviation’s normal standards, it has been a strange week. At the same ...

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

Summer Season Travel Airline Capacity Begins to Bounce Back & US Airlines ...

It feels like it has been a busy week in terms of airline activity. Capacity ...

Another one million additional seats added back week-on-week, carry on at this ...

If you have ever sat on a plane wondering where the person sitting next to you ...

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

Optimism breaks out around the world as the capacity recovery is underway! Four ...

There is growing optimism around an aviation recovery; in the UK it’s almost ...

It has been a very quiet week for global flight capacity with one of the ...

It was only ever likely to be for a week, but China has snatched back the title ...

Wow, where did that come from! A near 27% reduction in capacity and the loss of ...

Finally it’s over, we mean January not Covid-19 and the airline industry can ...

Another dire week for global aviation with more lockdowns, sudden suspensions ...

Fifty-two weeks ago, we wrote a short blog highlighting some of the regional ...

Fed up with looking back at 2020 data we’ve sneaked a peek forward at how some ...

Plus it's carnage in Europe as one quarter of capacity lost in a week. It is ...

The flattest seasonal holiday season has been reflected in the latest global ...

Despite everything that has been thrown at the aviation industry in 2020 there ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Nine: Nearly breaking through sixty-one ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Eight: Second guessing global capacity ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Seven: Whilst seasonal decorations ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Six: It’s been a very quiet week on the ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Five: Global aviation capacity continues ...

It’s big news in Asia but hasn’t really grabbed as many column inches in the ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Four: But capacity falls below June ...

US Aviation swings to the positive as international capacity steps up This week ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Three: The worrying and steady weekly ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Two: Early Saturday evening and there ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty One: The last week has probably been one ...

Coronavirus Capacity Update: For the last forty weeks we have analysed the data ...

The Perfect Moment For Disruption If you have over 100 aircraft scheduled for ...

Traditionally the next week is one of the most impressive displays of the ...

In the week that some 32,000 aviation professionals’ careers were placed at ...

At this time of year many scheduled airlines are normally smiling. The Summer ...

This is the week when the one billion mark occurred; since the 20th January we ...

Throughout 2020 scheduled airlines have been looking for glimmers of hope in a ...

In the week that Qantas introduced flights to nowhere that sold out in ten ...

Changing Strategies for the New Normal World There are few cities in the world ...

The increasing fear, or indeed reality of a second wave of Covid-19 in the last ...

The first full week of September capacity follows the recent trend and we are ...

There is an autumnal feel to the weather in Northern Europe at the moment and ...

It was the peak! This week’s latest scheduled capacity data shows a further ...

Network planners are on holiday this week. With only a 67,000 change in global ...

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

With one of the world’s largest airlines making nearly 800 schedule changes in ...

Global capacity continues to creep forward was this week’s planned headline; ...

British Airways Follows Others Iconic, much loved, instantly recognised, the ...

A steady 3.5% growth in capacity takes us to just under 56 million seats this ...

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

One thing COVID-19 has taught us is not to be greedy, an industry virtually ...

The $40 Billion Market That Remains Bugged For many airlines the Europe to ...

The first official week of Summer has resulted in the largest week on week ...

Week twenty-three of the Covid-19 crisis and the lowest week on week change in ...

Early COVID-19 Action Appears to Pay Dividends

It’s over. The UK’s aviation dream was broken this morning when U2 883 departed ...

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

It’s been a good week for scheduled airline capacity with nearly sixty airlines ...

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 ...

In some countries the number 111 is believed to bring bad luck. In cricket it ...

Tracking the impact of COVID-19 suddenly got a lot harder this week, if it ...

There have been few pleasurable moments around a low-cost airline experience, ...

Whisper it quietly but we may have reached the bottom. Scheduled airline ...

“Just” two and a half million fewer scheduled seats this week compared to the ...

The Coronavirus Air, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed on the ...

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

A further 11.1 Million seats were removed from the OAG database this week by ...

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

As airlines seek to work their way through the COVID-19 both adhering to travel ...

The weekend has once again been dominated by airlines making dramatic capacity ...

Are you ready for some big numbers? In a normal week there are some ninety-five ...

Airlines Adjusting Schedules Every Day | South Korea Sees 30% Capacity ...

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) ...

If you believe the data, then this week sees the first signs of a recovery in ...

Five weeks ago, China was the third largest international aviation market in ...

Last week we reported on probably the most dramatic reduction in capacity we ...

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 ...

It’s the first quarter of the new decade and we have the first medical alert as ...

It’s tough being a regional airline in the UK as BmiRegional, and others will ...

It’s challenging introducing any new aircraft type as most aircraft ...

Deal of the Decade With the dust only just settling on Delta Air Lines ...

The challenges of being a mid-size carrier in a market seeking consolidation ...

Changes in Capacity Growth Rankings Suggest Early evenings, winter weather, ...

We know that aviation is frequently a catalyst for economic activity and that ...

There are few airports in North America that can look forward with as much ...

Virgin Atlantic have confirmed that they will be retiring their remaining fleet ...

Airline networks, a mix of destinations, some routes operating with high daily ...

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

Commentators would have you believe that the market is soft this summer as ...

The Cricket World Cup starts this week in England, with 48 matches planned over ...

The last weekend in May brings a major public holiday in the United States with ...

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 ...

Too much capacity too quickly. A common complaint from airlines when demand ...

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

Long-haul low-cost, one of the most talked about subjects in the aviation ...

Management changes in any business create a period of uncertainty, and in most ...

On-time performance (OPTP) is becoming an increasingly valuable marketing ...

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

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 ...

Distance, time and capacity are only a few ways in which the airline industry ...

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

It’s frequently hard to comprehend the rate of capacity growth in China in ...

Airbus edged out Boeing in the annual aircraft order competition for 2017, but ...

As part of our latest contribution to a new Market Outlook Report – Ishka ...

It is never good news when an airline collapses, especially one with such ...

Ryanair may be making headlines for all the wrong reasons as its handling on a ...

Lower South America has had a chequered history of aviation development in ...

The recent announcement from United Airlines that they would be ceasing ...

One of the last major Barack Obama initiatives was the formalisation of ...

It should have been no surprise given the UK’s need to foster international ...

It’s been a good year for the Big Three. Strong profits, new aircraft ...

Quietly on the West Coast of Africa things are happening. A new hub airport is ...

Aviation is full of great iconic airline battles, it’s what makes the industry ...