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This article is the first in a series of monthly posts decoding the fundamental ...
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Despite the best attempts of the latest Covid-19 variant 'Omicron', and a ...
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Does Network Stability Equal Network Profitability? Covid-19 has stretched the ...
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The great aviation recovery is underway, or more precisely - airline capacity ...
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Moving Backwards? Travel restrictions put in place to protect citizens in many ...
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If last week was busy with IATA Slot, the Dubai Air Show and new aircraft ...
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A busy week for the aviation industry sees the good and great meeting at the ...
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US Airlines have a major role to play at Thanksgiving transporting literally ...
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A Welcome Injection of US$ 2.8 Billion For Transatlantic Carriers After more ...
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Over the past six months there have been numerous articles extolling the ...
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As the IATA Winter Season starts there is plenty of good news around the globe ...
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The last week of the 2021 summer season brings the usual mix of changes in ...
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More Outbreaks and Travel Restrictions Through a long and patient period of ...
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It seems that everything is positive for the aviation industry this week as ...
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The last seven days have felt like things are beginning to get back to some ...
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As the IAGA AGM commences today, there is an increasing feeling that the global ...
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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 ...
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Finally, good news for every scheduled airline CEO in Europe and the United ...
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Global Airline Capacity Unlikely to Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels Before 2023 at ...
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Africa’s ‘Lego’ Airline Proves Unbreakable It is only September, but the ...
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Peeking over the wall to the end of the year tells you all you need to know ...
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The aviation recovery is underway, well it is in some parts of the world and ...
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Capacity settles at 79.8 million, a slight increase on last week of 1.5% with ...
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Keeping the Brand Alive Sometimes called ‘boomerang flights’, a number of well ...
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As the long journey towards an aviation recovery begins, it’s a good time to ...
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This week’s data highlights once again just how frustrating and different every ...
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The challenges of the airline industry are captured in this week’s data; ...
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But 21.4 Million More Seats Removed From June to September Inventory Rather ...
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Industry Breaks Through 70 million Capacity Per Week The airline industry has ...
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Since last week saw some of the fastest capacity growth since January 2020, we ...
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The need for schedule synchronisation The airline industry has witnessed ...
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Following last week’s lack of activity, airlines have been adding capacity back ...
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We all want to get back to normal, business travellers flying around the globe ...
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80% of the World’s Largest International Markets Remain at Less Than 10% of ...
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Domestic Airline Capacity Heats Up This Summer As The Market Changes It is an ...
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The UK’s Green List for Travel Polite words and phrases such as “a step in the ...
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Over 1,400 new air routes have been scheduled to operate in 2021, the highest ...
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UK's Busiest Route in April 2021 is Isles of Scilly to Land's End The fact that ...
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Airlines Eagerly Awaiting Traffic Lights to Arrive, Will This Be The ...
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Domestic airline capacity, and TSA volumes, a proxy for flight demand have ...
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At OAG we’ve spent a year trying to understand how air travel will evolve ...
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In a previous blog on domestic market recovery , we focused on the biggest ...
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Does it matter when airlines operate different aircraft types on a route? In ...
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It feels like it has been a busy week in terms of airline activity. Capacity ...
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After a long hiatus, the B737MAX is finally back in the air again. Approval was ...
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Another one million additional seats added back week-on-week, carry on at this ...
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If you have ever sat on a plane wondering where the person sitting next to you ...
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Optimism continues to build in the recovery with weekly capacity increasing ...
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Helping Passengers Make Greener Choices A year ago OAG published its first ...
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Optimism breaks out around the world as the capacity recovery is underway! Four ...
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This month global scheduled airline capacity (seats) is down by 47% compared to ...
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There is growing optimism around an aviation recovery; in the UK it’s almost ...
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It has been a very quiet week for global flight capacity with one of the ...
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It was only ever likely to be for a week, but China has snatched back the title ...
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This week, we’re taking a look at some of the biggest domestic markets and how ...
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Wow, where did that come from! A near 27% reduction in capacity and the loss of ...
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Finally it’s over, we mean January not Covid-19 and the airline industry can ...
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Often referred to as the world’s largest mass migration, Chunyun, or the Spring ...
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Another dire week for global aviation with more lockdowns, sudden suspensions ...
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Will they? Won’t they? The Tokyo Olympics didn’t happen in 2020 and now the ...
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Fifty-two weeks ago, we wrote a short blog highlighting some of the regional ...
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Fed up with looking back at 2020 data we’ve sneaked a peek forward at how some ...
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Plus it's carnage in Europe as one quarter of capacity lost in a week. It is ...
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The flattest seasonal holiday season has been reflected in the latest global ...
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Despite everything that has been thrown at the aviation industry in 2020 there ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Nine: Nearly breaking through sixty-one ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Eight: Second guessing global capacity ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Seven: Whilst seasonal decorations ...
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It’s hard to believe that Beijing’s newest airport has been open for a year ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Six: It’s been a very quiet week on the ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Five: Global aviation capacity continues ...
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It’s big news in Asia but hasn’t really grabbed as many column inches in the ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Four: But capacity falls below June ...
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US Aviation swings to the positive as international capacity steps up This week ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Three: The worrying and steady weekly ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Two: Early Saturday evening and there ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty One: The last week has probably been one ...
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Hard times for regional airlines but not without opportunities News broke this ...
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Coronavirus Capacity Update: For the last forty weeks we have analysed the data ...
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OAG’s latest review of the World’s Top 20 Airlines – Take Off provides ...
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The Perfect Moment For Disruption If you have over 100 aircraft scheduled for ...
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Traditionally the next week is one of the most impressive displays of the ...
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In the week that some 32,000 aviation professionals’ careers were placed at ...
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At this time of year many scheduled airlines are normally smiling. The Summer ...
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This is the week when the one billion mark occurred; since the 20th January we ...
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Throughout 2020 scheduled airlines have been looking for glimmers of hope in a ...
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In the week that Qantas introduced flights to nowhere that sold out in ten ...
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The increasing fear, or indeed reality of a second wave of Covid-19 in the last ...
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The first full week of September capacity follows the recent trend and we are ...
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There is an autumnal feel to the weather in Northern Europe at the moment and ...
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It was the peak! This week’s latest scheduled capacity data shows a further ...
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Network planners are on holiday this week. With only a 67,000 change in global ...
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We may not have realised it at the time and it certainly didn’t feel that ...
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Understanding how passengers flow around the global airline network is vital ...
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With one of the world’s largest airlines making nearly 800 schedule changes in ...
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“Unprecedented” is a word we’ve heard a lot over the past 5 months. It’s a term ...
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Global capacity continues to creep forward was this week’s planned headline; ...
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British Airways Follows Others Iconic, much loved, instantly recognised, the ...
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A steady 3.5% growth in capacity takes us to just under 56 million seats this ...
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Last week we were very close, this week we have broken through the 50 million ...
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One thing COVID-19 has taught us is not to be greedy, an industry virtually ...
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The Long-Haul Routes Which European Secondary Airports Could Lose 40%. 50%. ...
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The $40 Billion Market That Remains Bugged For many airlines the Europe to ...
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The first official week of Summer has resulted in the largest week on week ...
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No part of the world is immune from the impact of COVID-19. Aviation in South ...
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Week twenty-three of the Covid-19 crisis and the lowest week on week change in ...
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It’s over. The UK’s aviation dream was broken this morning when U2 883 departed ...
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Consumers fearful while industry insiders more confident about travel ...
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During two weeks in March, global capacity was falling at around three million ...
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In the last week alone round 50 million seats were removed from OAG’s airline ...
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It’s been a good week for scheduled airline capacity with nearly sixty airlines ...
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At last a quiet week in terms of capacity changes; at least at the headline ...
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One of the questions during last weeks’ OAG webinars was from a New York-based ...
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As aviation starts what increasingly looks like a long and slow recovery ...
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Its been a record breaking positive week for weekly capacity growth; we have ...
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In some countries the number 111 is believed to bring bad luck. In cricket it ...
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Measures taken by airlines and airports to reduce the likelihood of ...
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Tracking the impact of COVID-19 suddenly got a lot harder this week, if it ...
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There have been few pleasurable moments around a low-cost airline experience, ...
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Whisper it quietly but we may have reached the bottom. Scheduled airline ...
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When we started preparing the data for the 2020 version of OAG’s Busiest Routes ...
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“Just” two and a half million fewer scheduled seats this week compared to the ...
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The Coronavirus Air, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed on the ...
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How low can we go? Which airlines will fare better? What is appropriate ...
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Some five million more scheduled seats were removed by airlines around the ...
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A further 11.1 Million seats were removed from the OAG database this week by ...
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In the last seven days just over 20 million scheduled seats have been removed ...
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As airlines seek to work their way through the COVID-19 both adhering to travel ...
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The weekend has once again been dominated by airlines making dramatic capacity ...
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11% OF US INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AFFECTED BY SCHENGEN BAN On Wednesday 11th ...
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Are you ready for some big numbers? In a normal week there are some ninety-five ...
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Airlines Adjusting Schedules Every Day | South Korea Sees 30% Capacity ...
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One of the beautiful things about aeroplanes is that they can broadly fly ...
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The welcomed addition of another 2.9 million scheduled seats (18,200 flights) ...
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It’s unusual for the announcement of a new airline to be greeted with as much ...
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If you believe the data, then this week sees the first signs of a recovery in ...
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Last week a British Airways Boeing 747 beat the record for a subsonic ...
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One of the repeated comments regarding the recent near demise of UK regional ...
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Five weeks ago, China was the third largest international aviation market in ...
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Last week we reported on probably the most dramatic reduction in capacity we ...
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In the middle of a crisis it’s often hard to see beyond it, and to imagine life ...
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Between February 2nd and February 3rd 2020, the daily World Health Organization ...
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One in Four Seats Cancelled The last week has seen unprecedented levels of ...
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Ultra-Low-Cost Creates Legacy Implications The battle amongst Europe’s low-cost ...
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As environmental concerns gather momentum, the focus on air travel’s ...
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It’s tough being a regional airline in the UK as BmiRegional, and others will ...
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It’s challenging introducing any new aircraft type as most aircraft ...
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How to avoid the crowds and plan for potential interruptions This year’s ...
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Deal of the Decade With the dust only just settling on Delta Air Lines ...
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Qantas may have recently operated a test flight between New York and Sydney but ...
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The challenges of being a mid-size carrier in a market seeking consolidation ...
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Changes in Capacity Growth Rankings Suggest Early evenings, winter weather, ...
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Fashion is all about keeping up with the new and, for some, taking the lead ...
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In July 2019, Spirit Airlines issued an Investor Update which explained how ...
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From its origins as a Scandinavian low-cost carrier more than 10 years ago, ...
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Amidst the sadness this week at the loss of a heritage brand from the UK plc ...
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At their training camps across Japan, the 20 national teams waiting for the ...
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Adelaide Airport has reinforced its position as one of Australia’s fastest ...
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In June, Westjet and Delta came one step closer to creating a joint venture ...
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Virgin Atlantic have confirmed that they will be retiring their remaining fleet ...
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Half of all Chinese who live in the US reside in either California or New York, ...
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Airline networks, a mix of destinations, some routes operating with high daily ...
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The grounding of the B737Max continues and the commercial damage for airline ...
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Commentators would have you believe that the market is soft this summer as ...
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Having looked like a certainty, and then not, by the end of June the ...
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The availability of more data than ever before has given the aviation industry ...
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Airbus edged out Boeing in the annual aircraft order competition for 2017, but ...
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It’s quite rare for two countries to completely liberalise their air service ...
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It’s always sad to see an airline cease operations and next week Air Berlin ...
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OAG is proud to award 5-star ratings to 14 airlines and 49 airports in the ...
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It is never good news when an airline collapses, especially one with such ...
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Ryanair may be making headlines for all the wrong reasons as its handling on a ...
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Lower South America has had a chequered history of aviation development in ...
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The recent announcement from United Airlines that they would be ceasing ...
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The great strength of hub airports is that they connect passengers from one ...
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An airline that reports a $1.5 Billion profit, achieves a near 94% passenger ...
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One of the last major Barack Obama initiatives was the formalisation of ...
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In the second collaborative piece, OAG and Skyscanner explore three trending ...
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As airports and airspace become more crowded, the way operations are managed ...
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Legacy carriers are right to be jittery about the competitive threat from ...
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It’s a discussion that has raged since the first commercial air services. Who ...
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In the first of a series of collaborative pieces – OAG has teamed up with ...
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Relationships which cross continents are rarely easy. This is as true for ...
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If you can’t beat them, join them. Or so the motto goes. Having spent years ...
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Having gone through a period of intense consolidation, the US now has three ...
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The three largest US airlines are all the result of mergers in recent years. ...
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It’s now seven years since Delta Air Lines and Northwest completed their ...
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With a love of shopping, a desire for Japanese products and becoming ...
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Earlier in our blog series this week we looked at how the low-cost sector is ...
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There’s been a low-cost carrier (LCC) presence in Japan for many years but for ...
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Travel search engine Skyscanner recently announced that Reykjavik in Iceland ...
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Having just finished our New Year festivities here at OAG HQ, we’re in the mood ...
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It’s a frequent story seeing double-digit frequency growth over a few years in ...
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It’s been a good year for the Big Three. Strong profits, new aircraft ...
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With India Tourism the premier partner for World Travel Market this week, OAG ...
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With India Tourism the premier partner for World Travel Market this week, OAG ...
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With India Tourism the premier partner for World Travel Market this week, OAG ...
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Aviation is a risky business from many perspectives; the returns for airlines ...
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Quietly on the West Coast of Africa things are happening. A new hub airport is ...
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As World Routes heads to Chengdu in September, OAG takes a timely look at where ...
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Emergent markets, new airlines, burgeoning low cost sector, new alliances, ...
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Aviation is full of great iconic airline battles, it’s what makes the industry ...
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It’s only a week ago since All Nippon Airways took delivery of its 50th ...
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It’s been an iconic ambition to secure non-stop services from Australia to the ...
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Traditionally on the busiest week of the year, Delta Air Lines had been struck ...
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It may prove to be one of the last changes to US aviation policy under the ...
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With the expectation that a decision on where London’s next runway capacity ...
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Geography can be challenging, especially when you are located on the East or ...
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Air services between China and Europe are growing rapidly. In July 2016, there ...
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We all like to travel as directly as possible from one destination to the next ...
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Imagine two cities with populations of 31 million and 25 million, respectively. ...
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In December 2014, OAG published its 2015 Trends report. At the time the world ...
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Airbnb’s latest top destinations are located at airports where low-cost ...
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With approval granted for numerous new air services to Havana, airports and ...
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Using OAG data, we reveal the top 10 unserved routes in key Eastern Europe ...
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According to OAG’s most recent report, “Self-Connection: The Rise and ...
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The announcement that Alaska Airlines is acquiring Virgin America surprised ...
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US regulators have indicated their intention to use the availability of slots ...
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With the arrival of the new and more efficient breed of long range aircraft, ...
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In our latest report, OAG explores drivers of growth in Eastern Europe.
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For many years the fortunes of the aviation industry were a reflection of ...
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Find out which airlines and airports got their on-time performance off to a ...
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As airports across the East Coast of the United States clear up after the ...
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On paper, at least, prospects for Iranian aviation are looking good.
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Once again we’ve had a busy first week back in the office at OAG HQ; with no ...
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At OAG we track every scheduled flight around the planet on a daily basis. With ...
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The first confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa were reported in ...
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In contrast to news reports of weakness in the Chinese economy, there is no ...
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How OTP is measured has recently come into question with the suggestion that ...
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In preparation for Thanksgiving this year, OAG uses data from Schedules ...
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In the first couple of weeks of November, Ryanair will be launching three new ...
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It's one of the largest continents on the planet with over 15% of the worlds ...
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With the Rugby World Cup kicking off tonight, OAG looks back on the prestigious ...
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The announcement of a merger between two of the largest Russian airlines, ...
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Alaska Airlines Strengthens Relationship with American With the news last week ...
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With Singapore set to celebrate 50 years of independence this weekend we take a ...
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With Beijing airspace set to be closed for 3 hours next month as part of the ...
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Your Most Powerful Aviation Data Set It’s probably one of the most powerful ...
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Analysing Delta Air Lines' role at Dallas Southwest has given Delta Air Lines a ...
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What The Gulf Carriers Mean for US Airline Networks The recent complaint from ...
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Airbus called a halt to production of its four-engine wide-body A340 towards ...
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In March 2015, US carriers presented a case for unfair competition from some of ...
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This summer marks the fourth summer since Japan and the Republic of China ...
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In 2011 there were 241 airlines registered and operating scheduled services ...
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With election fever about to take over the UK in the coming weeks, there is a ...
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It's amazing how much difference one mile can make in aviation! Today scheduled ...
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Holiday periods are often busy times in terms of air travel and Chinese New ...
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Talk of Europe’s biggest airline groups, IAG, Air-France KLM and Deutsche ...
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Think of an industry that for the last three decades has been dominated by ...
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It seems that the possibilities of an IAG acquisition of Aer Lingus are ...
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How big a hole does the suspension of Cyprus Airways leave in the air transport ...
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Congratulations to our Punctuality League winners! It’s been a busy week here ...
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As 2014 draws to a close we look into the new year and use our extensive ...
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Like many currently eagerly anticipating what Christmas might bring, this week ...
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Friday evenings are notorious on the M25 around London but this week it’s the ...
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OAG welcomes Christmas with this festive infographic showing the top 10 ...