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Despite the best attempts of the latest Covid-19 variant 'Omicron', and a ...
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A Welcome Injection of US$ 2.8 Billion For Transatlantic Carriers After more ...
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80% of the World’s Largest International Markets Remain at Less Than 10% of ...
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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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Finally it’s over, we mean January not Covid-19 and the airline industry can ...
Often referred to as the world’s largest mass migration, Chunyun, or the Spring ...
Another dire week for global aviation with more lockdowns, sudden suspensions ...
Will they? Won’t they? The Tokyo Olympics didn’t happen in 2020 and now the ...
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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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The flattest seasonal holiday season has been reflected in the latest global ...
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It’s hard to believe that Beijing’s newest airport has been open for a year ...
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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 One: The last week has probably been one ...
Hard times for regional airlines but not without opportunities News broke this ...
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OAG’s latest review of the World’s Top 20 Airlines – Take Off provides ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Understanding how passengers flow around the global airline network is vital ...
With one of the world’s largest airlines making nearly 800 schedule changes in ...
“Unprecedented” is a word we’ve heard a lot over the past 5 months. It’s a term ...
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 ...
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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 ...
No part of the world is immune from the impact of COVID-19. Aviation in South ...
Week twenty-three of the Covid-19 crisis and the lowest week on week change in ...
It’s over. The UK’s aviation dream was broken this morning when U2 883 departed ...
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During two weeks in March, global capacity was falling at around three million ...
In the last week alone round 50 million seats were removed from OAG’s airline ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Measures taken by airlines and airports to reduce the likelihood of ...
Tracking the impact of COVID-19 suddenly got a lot harder this week, if it ...
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Whisper it quietly but we may have reached the bottom. Scheduled airline ...
When we started preparing the data for the 2020 version of OAG’s Busiest Routes ...
“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 ...
How low can we go? Which airlines will fare better? What is appropriate ...
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 ...
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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) ...
It’s unusual for the announcement of a new airline to be greeted with as much ...
If you believe the data, then this week sees the first signs of a recovery in ...
Last week a British Airways Boeing 747 beat the record for a subsonic ...
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Between February 2nd and February 3rd 2020, the daily World Health Organization ...
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Ultra-Low-Cost Creates Legacy Implications The battle amongst Europe’s low-cost ...
As environmental concerns gather momentum, the focus on air travel’s ...
It’s tough being a regional airline in the UK as BmiRegional, and others will ...
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How to avoid the crowds and plan for potential interruptions This year’s ...
Deal of the Decade With the dust only just settling on Delta Air Lines ...
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The challenges of being a mid-size carrier in a market seeking consolidation ...
Changes in Capacity Growth Rankings Suggest Early evenings, winter weather, ...
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 ...
From its origins as a Scandinavian low-cost carrier more than 10 years ago, ...
Amidst the sadness this week at the loss of a heritage brand from the UK plc ...
At their training camps across Japan, the 20 national teams waiting for the ...
Adelaide Airport has reinforced its position as one of Australia’s fastest ...
In June, Westjet and Delta came one step closer to creating a joint venture ...
Virgin Atlantic have confirmed that they will be retiring their remaining fleet ...
Half of all Chinese who live in the US reside in either California or New York, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Airbus edged out Boeing in the annual aircraft order competition for 2017, but ...
It’s quite rare for two countries to completely liberalise their air service ...
It’s always sad to see an airline cease operations and next week Air Berlin ...
OAG is proud to award 5-star ratings to 14 airlines and 49 airports in the ...
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 ...
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The recent announcement from United Airlines that they would be ceasing ...
The great strength of hub airports is that they connect passengers from one ...
An airline that reports a $1.5 Billion profit, achieves a near 94% passenger ...
One of the last major Barack Obama initiatives was the formalisation of ...
In the second collaborative piece, OAG and Skyscanner explore three trending ...
As airports and airspace become more crowded, the way operations are managed ...
Legacy carriers are right to be jittery about the competitive threat from ...
It’s a discussion that has raged since the first commercial air services. Who ...
In the first of a series of collaborative pieces – OAG has teamed up with ...
Relationships which cross continents are rarely easy. This is as true for ...
If you can’t beat them, join them. Or so the motto goes. Having spent years ...
Having gone through a period of intense consolidation, the US now has three ...
The three largest US airlines are all the result of mergers in recent years. ...
It’s now seven years since Delta Air Lines and Northwest completed their ...
With a love of shopping, a desire for Japanese products and becoming ...
Earlier in our blog series this week we looked at how the low-cost sector is ...
There’s been a low-cost carrier (LCC) presence in Japan for many years but for ...
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Having just finished our New Year festivities here at OAG HQ, we’re in the mood ...
It’s a frequent story seeing double-digit frequency growth over a few years in ...
It’s been a good year for the Big Three. Strong profits, new aircraft ...
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 ...
Quietly on the West Coast of Africa things are happening. A new hub airport is ...
As World Routes heads to Chengdu in September, OAG takes a timely look at where ...
Emergent markets, new airlines, burgeoning low cost sector, new alliances, ...
Aviation is full of great iconic airline battles, it’s what makes the industry ...
It’s only a week ago since All Nippon Airways took delivery of its 50th ...
It’s been an iconic ambition to secure non-stop services from Australia to the ...
Traditionally on the busiest week of the year, Delta Air Lines had been struck ...
It may prove to be one of the last changes to US aviation policy under the ...
With the expectation that a decision on where London’s next runway capacity ...
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Air services between China and Europe are growing rapidly. In July 2016, there ...
We all like to travel as directly as possible from one destination to the next ...
Imagine two cities with populations of 31 million and 25 million, respectively. ...
In December 2014, OAG published its 2015 Trends report. At the time the world ...
Airbnb’s latest top destinations are located at airports where low-cost ...
With approval granted for numerous new air services to Havana, airports and ...
Using OAG data, we reveal the top 10 unserved routes in key Eastern Europe ...
According to OAG’s most recent report, “Self-Connection: The Rise and ...
The announcement that Alaska Airlines is acquiring Virgin America surprised ...
US regulators have indicated their intention to use the availability of slots ...
With the arrival of the new and more efficient breed of long range aircraft, ...
In our latest report, OAG explores drivers of growth in Eastern Europe.
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As airports across the East Coast of the United States clear up after the ...
On paper, at least, prospects for Iranian aviation are looking good.
Once again we’ve had a busy first week back in the office at OAG HQ; with no ...
At OAG we track every scheduled flight around the planet on a daily basis. With ...
The first confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa were reported in ...
In contrast to news reports of weakness in the Chinese economy, there is no ...
How OTP is measured has recently come into question with the suggestion that ...
In preparation for Thanksgiving this year, OAG uses data from Schedules ...
In the first couple of weeks of November, Ryanair will be launching three new ...
It's one of the largest continents on the planet with over 15% of the worlds ...
With the Rugby World Cup kicking off tonight, OAG looks back on the prestigious ...
The announcement of a merger between two of the largest Russian airlines, ...
Alaska Airlines Strengthens Relationship with American With the news last week ...
With Singapore set to celebrate 50 years of independence this weekend we take a ...
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Analysing Delta Air Lines' role at Dallas Southwest has given Delta Air Lines a ...
What The Gulf Carriers Mean for US Airline Networks The recent complaint from ...
Airbus called a halt to production of its four-engine wide-body A340 towards ...
In March 2015, US carriers presented a case for unfair competition from some of ...
This summer marks the fourth summer since Japan and the Republic of China ...
In 2011 there were 241 airlines registered and operating scheduled services ...
With election fever about to take over the UK in the coming weeks, there is a ...
It's amazing how much difference one mile can make in aviation! Today scheduled ...
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Talk of Europe’s biggest airline groups, IAG, Air-France KLM and Deutsche ...
Think of an industry that for the last three decades has been dominated by ...
It seems that the possibilities of an IAG acquisition of Aer Lingus are ...
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Congratulations to our Punctuality League winners! It’s been a busy week here ...
As 2014 draws to a close we look into the new year and use our extensive ...
Like many currently eagerly anticipating what Christmas might bring, this week ...
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