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Asia Responds to Middle East Crisis with Mid-Season Airline Capacity Changes
Asia's scheduled international capacity for May to October 2026 has shifted and evolved. In this analysis, we explore...
Aviation market analysis
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Which Airline Won the Race to Fill Spirit’s Capacity?
John Grant: May 26, 2026
The aviation industry is dynamic, and it sadly doesn’t take long for an airline to be forgotten as other carriers pick...
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How do Airlines Choose New Routes? Summer Seasonal Services Offer a Chance to Experiment
John Grant: May 18, 2026
Season to season, there is very little change in the networks of larger European legacy airlines,as a mix of capacity...
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We've Come a Long Way: The World's Longest Routes Go 15% Further than 25 Years Ago
OAG: May 14, 2026
OAG data shows the average distance of the top 10 longest non-stop flights has grown by 14.5% since 2000, powered by a...
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Europe's Sun Destinations are Adding 13.4 Million Seats this Summer
OAG: May 12, 2026
Spain, Italy and Greece are posting some of the strongest capacity growth in Western Europe. Here is what the numbers...
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The Regional Impact for Airlines and Airports from the Ongoing Middle East Conflict
John Grant: Apr 30, 2026
As the peak summer travel season approaches, airlines are planning schedules under a degree of genuine uncertainty. The...
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The US Domestic Market – Ready for Reorganisation
John Grant: Apr 23, 2026
In a market where for many airlines margins are wafer thin, it takes very little for those margins to come under severe...
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US Airfares in Q1 2026: What the Data Shows
OAG: Apr 15, 2026
OAG's latest analysis of the top US domestic and international routes in Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025 shows fare declines on the...
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Summer 2026: New Airline Routes and Where They're Launching
OAG: Apr 2, 2026
OAG data shows a total of 1,323 new routes starting in Summer 2026 - 614 domestic and 709 international - spread across...
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Middle East Conflict: The Impact on Airline Capacity
John Grant: Mar 24, 2026
The aviation industry is once again navigating a complex and fast-moving set of external events as the situation in the...
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The Kangaroo Route: Understanding UK - Australia Routing Options
John Grant: Mar 19, 2026
It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once...
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How US Airlines Are Reshaping Their International Networks
John Grant: Mar 10, 2026
The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping...
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What Do the 20 Major Airlines Tell Us About The Current Aviation Market?
OAG: Feb 27, 2026
You can find key metrics for each of the world’s top 20 airlines (based on seat capacity in 2025) in OAG’s freshly...
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The Americas’ Ultra-Long-Haul Market May Be Nearing Saturation - Here’s Where Opportunity Remains
John Grant: Feb 24, 2026
One of many interesting network developments we’ve followed in recent years has been the launch of new services enabled...
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World Cup 2026: A Game of Two Halves for Air Travel
John Grant: Feb 12, 2026
Global sporting events rarely result in an immediate increase in demand during the event itself. In many cases, air...
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China's Longest Spring Festival Holiday: Top Domestic and International Travel Destinations for 2026
Deirdre Fulton: Feb 11, 2026
While Spring Festival in China traditionally centres around families and friends celebrating Chinese New Year together,...
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American Airlines and United at Chicago O’Hare: What Happens Next?
John Grant: Feb 3, 2026
Chicago, specifically O’Hare International Airport, is a unique market. It is one of the few airports in the world that...
Quiz: Rank the Star alliance airlines
OAG: Jan 22, 2026
Challenge your aviation industry knowledge with our expert-level quiz! Rank Star Alliance member airlines based on...
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The Complexities of Network Churn Across European Airlines
John Grant: Jan 21, 2026
Airlines are constantly updating their route networks as they respond to changes in market conditions, traveller...
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The Air Travel Trends That Will Shape 2026
John Grant: Jan 16, 2026
John Grant brings together schedule data, pricing insights, and operational experience to connect the dots between...
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Airfares on the World’s Busiest Flight Routes in 2025
OAG: Jan 9, 2026
As global air travel continues its post-pandemic normalisation, airfare trends on the world’s busiest routes reveal...
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Canada Adjusts Airline Capacity for the Snowbird Season
John Grant: Jan 7, 2026
The “snowbird” season has provided airlines with a valuable revenue stream in a typically quiet period of the year as...
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Air Travel Statistics 2025
OAG: Dec 29, 2025
What were the biggest aviation milestones of 2025, and what do they signal for the year ahead? From the busiest day for...
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From K-Pop to K-Airlines: Three Charts on South Korea's Aviation Success
Deirdre Fulton: Dec 19, 2025
South Korea’s aviation sector continues to exceed its relative scale, and nowhere is this more striking than on the...
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Flying North for Christmas: How Airline Capacity to Lapland Is Taking Off
John Grant: Dec 16, 2025
When you have millions of presents to make and wrap, a fast-approaching deadline, and yearly disputes between the...
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Central Asia: The World’s Fastest Growing Aviation Market
Deirdre Fulton: Dec 11, 2025
Central Asia may be the smallest aviation region globally, with 33.7 million scheduled seats in 2025, but it is leading...
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Thanksgiving Airline Capacity: Modest Increases as LCCs Expand Operations
John Grant: Nov 20, 2025
As both airlines and travellers breathe a sigh of relief now that the recent disruption in operations appears to be...
Quiz: Rank The SkyTeam Airlines
OAG: Nov 13, 2025
Challenge your aviation industry knowledge with our expert level quiz! Rank SkyTeam alliance member airlines based on...
Quiz: Rank The Oneworld Airlines
OAG: Oct 21, 2025
Put your aviation industry knowledge to the test with our Oneworld alliance airlines quiz. Test how well you know the...
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Is It More Expensive to Travel This Year? In Many Cases, it’s Actually Slightly Cheaper
John Grant: Oct 20, 2025
When we book a flight or speak to friends, it may feel as if the cost of air travel is increasing year-on-year, and...
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Cautious Winter Capacity Growth Could Set the Stage for a Strong Year-End
John Grant: Oct 16, 2025
As the Northern Hemisphere heads into shorter days and colder nights - and in the Southern Hemisphere nights draw out...
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Intra-ASEAN Travel: A Constant Amid Global Turmoil
Deirdre Fulton: Oct 6, 2025
Travel within ASEAN countries accounts for the largest share of international arrivals into the region, growing from...
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The Transatlantic Airline Market Explored in 3 Charts
Deirdre Fulton: Oct 2, 2025
In this blog, we explore the size and scale of one of the largest air markets in the world – the Transatlantic - using...
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Megahubs: 10 Years On
John Grant: Sep 25, 2025
Megahubs 2025 is the 10th annual edition of the market's definitive ranking of the top internationally connected...
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What Has Led to the Second Chapter 11 Filing for Spirit Airlines?
John Grant: Sep 1, 2025
Spirit Airlines has had a particularly bad year – navigating its first Chapter 11 proceedings, dealing with significant...
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Ryanair’s Bold Winter Shift: French Capacity is Cut
John Grant: Aug 15, 2025
For many airlines, cost control is crucial. When an external supplier or agency imposes a price increase, the airline,...
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Brazil's Domestic Air Capacity Growth Explored in 3 Charts
Deirdre Fulton: Aug 12, 2025
In this blog, we explore Brazil’s domestic air capacity using just three key data points – for a quick, yet insightful...
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Rapid Air Connectivity Growth in Latin America, but What's Next for LCCs?
John Grant: Aug 7, 2025
One of aviation’s great gifts is the connectivity it creates, facilitating trade, which in turn builds economic and...
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The Busiest Days for Air Travel
OAG: Aug 2, 2025
August 1st 2025 was the busiest day of the year for air travel, with 18,531,658 airline seats scheduled for that day....
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100 Million Club: The Rise of Mega Airports | Part 2
Deirdre Fulton: Jul 23, 2025
The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing a significant surge in air travel, with IATA projecting that passenger numbers...
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Latin America’s Airline Comeback: Is This Recovery Built to Last?
John Grant: Jul 17, 2025
Few markets have experienced such turbulent growth in the aviation sector as Latin America, where often the factors...
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Can Thailand Fill a Shortfall in Chinese Capacity? 3 Charts Tell the Story
Deirdre Fulton: Jul 15, 2025
Just three charts can give us an overview of how Thailand’s international air capacity is faring in summer 2025. During...
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Track India’s Aviation Growth: Key Industry Insights
Deirdre Fulton: Jul 9, 2025
OAG has launched its latest aviation insights dashboard focused on India, one of the fastest-growing aviation markets...
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100 Million Club: The Rise of Mega Airports | Part 1
Deirdre Fulton: Jul 4, 2025
The next decade promises some significant and exciting developments in airport infrastructure. Plans are underway at...
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Global Aviation’s Mid Term Report
John Grant: Jun 28, 2025
It’s somehow always surprising to reach the mid-point of the year, but we are nearly halfway through 2025. As always,...
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JetBlue’s Strategic Dilemma
John Grant: Jun 24, 2025
The aviation industry can be the most unforgiving at times. Wafer thin margins on a capital-intensive industry,...
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How Airport Planning Teams Fill the Gaps of Flight Schedules
John Grant: Jun 19, 2025
Airports are extremely expensive to operate, and while every airport around the world has its peak hours of operation -...
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Race Across The World by Air: Legacy vs Low-Cost
John Grant: Jun 9, 2025
As the BBC’s popular Race Across The World reaches its final stage this week with the contestants heading to the tip of...
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Southeast Asia Aviation: Tapping Into the Strength of the Indian Market
Deirdre Fulton: Jun 4, 2025
Following the pandemic, the Southeast Asian tourism industry turned its attention to India, hoping to capture one of...
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Middle East Aviation: Balancing Growth and Competition
Deirdre Fulton: May 28, 2025
In the first part of our analysis, we examined the rapidly growing aviation market in the Middle East, highlighting the...
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Middle East Aviation: Growth in the World’s Second-Fastest Growing Market
Deirdre Fulton: May 21, 2025
The Middle East has experienced an unparalleled era of growth, with airlines and airports consistently introducing...
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Transatlantic Air Travel Demand This Summer: Measure by ASKs or Seats?
John Grant: May 13, 2025
As most legacy airlines have reported their first-quarter 2025 results, there is some confusion about how any slowdown...
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Transatlantic Travel Holds Steady: Europe–US Capacity Flat, Airfares Dip Slightly
John Grant: May 7, 2025
The big three US legacy airlines have published their first-quarter results, and there seems to be a consensus that...
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Has Long-Haul Low-Cost Finally Found Its Sweet Spot? How the Middle East and India Could Unlock Its Full Potential
John Grant: Apr 28, 2025
The concept of long-haul low-cost airlines has been around for decades and in all its various shapes and forms, the one...
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Aviation Reboot: China and India Revisit Air Travel Ties
John Grant: Apr 24, 2025
China and India have recently begun discussions on restarting direct air services between the two countries. These...
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Spain Basks In Another Strong Summer for Airlines
John Grant: Apr 8, 2025
It looks like this summer will be the most successful yet for Europe’s airlines and airports, with record levels of...
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Morocco Tourism: A Closer Look at Growth Trends
Deirdre Fulton: Apr 2, 2025
In 2024, Morocco emerged as Africa’s most-visited tourist destination, knocking Egypt off the top spot. According to...
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Canada - US Aviation: Airlines Respond to Weakening Demand
John Grant: Mar 26, 2025
Airline capacity between Canada and the US has been reduced through to October 2025, with the most significant cuts...
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North American Summer 2025 Schedules: Network and Capacity Changes
John Grant: Mar 18, 2025
While the clocks have already sprung forward in North America, the IATA Summer 2025 season is still a few weeks away...
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Long-Haul Low-Cost Airlines: Why Can They Succeed in Some Markets but Fail in Others?
John Grant: Mar 11, 2025
Is there a market for long-haul low-cost airlines? It’s a question that has been asked for at least a decade, and this...
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Ukraine Aviation Market: Returning To Something Very Different
John Grant: Mar 7, 2025
As we anticipate the reopening of scheduled services to Ukraine at some point in 2025, some of Europe’s boldest...
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Is Asia Pacific the World's Most Competitive Aviation Market?
OAG: Feb 27, 2025
The Asia Pacific (ASPAC) aviation market has been on a remarkable recovery trajectory following the disruption of the...
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The TAP Is Finally Turned On: TAP Air Portugal Sale Moves to Next Stage
John Grant: Feb 14, 2025
It’s been on, off, on, off and finally looks like it’s on! 2025 will be the year of the great TAP Air Portugal (TAP)...
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Air Travel Was The Only Bargain Ticket at Super Bowl LIX
John Grant: Feb 10, 2025
The biggest sporting event in the United States also provides one of the greatest opportunities for ticket inflation,...
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European Airlines Set for a Confident Q1 2025 Amid Year-End and Early Financial Results
John Grant: Feb 10, 2025
As a cluster of European airlines announce their year-end results, and a few others bizarrely report their first...
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IndiGo’s Perfect Long-Haul Low-Cost Position
John Grant: Jan 30, 2025
The jury has been out on the potential for a sustainable long-haul low-cost airline operation for many years and whilst...
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Heathrow Airport: Full to Capacity and Holding Back Economic Growth
OAG: Jan 29, 2025
Today, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, unveiled a major growth plan for the UK, which includes her support for expanding...
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GOL and Azul, a Merger of Necessity Or Choice?
John Grant: Jan 28, 2025
Airline mergers and acquisitions seem to be just like London buses, nothing for a while and then suddenly three come...
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Delta Air Lines Predicts Best Ever Year
John Grant: Jan 15, 2025
It’s a brave call in the second week of the year and you have to admire the confidence as Delta Air Lines predicts that...
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Aviation’s Longest Engagement - Time For a Korean Wedding
John Grant: Jan 14, 2025
In November 2020 - while the pandemic wrecked the aviation sector - Korean Air and Asiana Airlines revealed plans to...
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The Nervous First Quarter; US Airlines’ Capacity Growth Disguises Key Adjustments
John Grant: Jan 10, 2025
The first quarter of each year is always challenging for airlines in the Northern Hemisphere as demand drops and they...
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Air Travel Statistics 2024
OAG: Dec 19, 2024
When was the busiest day for air travel in 2024? Which flight routes have topped 100 flights per day? Which is the...
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Latin America: The Airline Landscape
Deirdre Fulton: Dec 12, 2024
Following part one and two of our series on Latin America where we explored connectivity across the continent and...
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Airline Industry 2025: Will Airfares Fall? Will Aircraft Production Problems Persist? Is Revenge Travel Spending Over?
John Grant: Dec 12, 2024
Back in December 2023 we took a temperature read on the industry, summarising industry leaders’ thoughts on the...
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The Mediterranean's Air Capacity Soars: Key Drivers and Emerging Destinations
Deirdre Fulton: Dec 2, 2024
During summer 2024, air capacity to Mediterranean countries soared. What were the key factors behind this growth, and...
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Looking Outwards: How Connected Is Latin America to the Rest of the World?
Deirdre Fulton: Nov 21, 2024
Welcome to the second instalment of our Latin America Aviation series. Following analysis of capacity within Latin...
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Spirit Airlines’ Constant Craving for Growth, What Went Wrong?
John Grant: Nov 20, 2024
To most parts of the world Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code is a strange concept, it allows a company to...
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Airline Capacity Grew 6.4% in 2024, But Could it Have Been Better?
John Grant: Nov 19, 2024
It’s been a frustrating year for the aviation industry, so in this headline review of 2024 - the first in a two-part...
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Mexico Bucks the Trend of Falling Airfares in Latin America
John Grant: Nov 5, 2024
Airfares finally appear to be falling in markets around the world, as the last revenge spending of the pandemic period...
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Connectivity Across the Continent: A Deeper Look at Latin America
Deirdre Fulton: Oct 22, 2024
This article is the first in a series that delves into the dynamic landscape of Latin America's aviation market,...
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Summer 2024: Airfares Reduced as Capacity Increased on These European Flight Routes
John Grant: Oct 14, 2024
As the IATA northern hemisphere winds down and airlines reflect upon a season of high load factors, operational...
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The World's Most Connected Low-Cost Carrier Airports
OAG: Sep 26, 2024
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) are a firmly established part of the aviation industry, operating one-third of all airline...
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London Heathrow Holds #1 Spot as the World's Most Connected Airport
OAG: Sep 12, 2024
OAG Megahubs 2024, the market’s definitive ranking of the Top 50 internationally connected airports in the world, has...
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The World of Connected Airports: Megahubs, Hubs and Niche Airports
John Grant: Sep 5, 2024
Not all airports are the same, and in the world of large airports it’s common to describe every airport as a ‘hub’,...
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Low-Cost Carriers in The Aviation Industry: Where Next?
John Grant: Aug 16, 2024
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) are an established and evolving part of the aviation industry, we have previously asked what...
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African Aviation: Optimistic Signs of Market Growth, or Increasing Risk?
John Grant: Aug 7, 2024
Welcome back to the last in our series of articles focused on the African Aviation Market. In part one we discussed the...
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China Expands International Network but will Demand Follow?
John Grant: Aug 2, 2024
The missing piece of the pandemic recovery jigsaw was the reopening of China and the flood of expected Chinese...
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CrowdStrike Travel Chaos: Airlines Struggling Back to Normal Operations
John Grant: Jul 22, 2024
It’s hard enough running an airline at the best of times and maintaining schedules when “usual” events such as weather,...
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The World's Shortest International Commercial Flights
OAG: Jul 15, 2024
Just how short is the world’s shortest commercial flight? We’ve had a run-down of the world’s longest non-stop flights,...
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Middle East Aviation: New Aircraft Orders
John Grant: Jul 9, 2024
Here is the last in our series of articles focused on the Middle East Aviation Market, we have previously examined the...
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Africa: Is Aviation Keeping Pace With Population Growth?
Deirdre Fulton: Jul 5, 2024
Welcome back to our African Aviation series. In the first blog post of this series, we explored the fortunes of two...
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Middle East Aviation: Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
John Grant: Jun 23, 2024
Welcome to the second article of a 3-part series exploring the Middle East Aviation Market. Further insights can be...
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India’s Domestic Aviation: A Deep-Dive Into a Decade of Growth
Deirdre Fulton: Jun 18, 2024
This is the final blog post in a three-part series focused on India’s aviation market. In the previous two articles we...
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2024: A Record Breaking Summer for the Transatlantic Market
OAG: Jun 14, 2024
While the weather in the United Kingdom may be below average so far this summer, the market between North America and...
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Ethiopian Airlines Leaves Kenya Airways Behind
John Grant: Jun 12, 2024
Stand still in the airline industry and you will get left behind very quickly. Extreme levels of competition, emergent...
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Middle East Aviation: A Constantly Climbing Market
John Grant: Jun 6, 2024
This is the first article of a 3-part series exploring the Middle East Aviation Market. Further insights can be found...
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Euro 2024: How The Top Travel Stats Line Up
John Grant: May 28, 2024
The next big European football event, the UEFA European Football Championship, is nearly here. Twenty-four national...
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Indian Aviation: International Intentions and Hub Expansion
Deirdre Fulton: May 22, 2024
This is the second article in a series focused on India's aviation market. Our first article set the scene for India’s...
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Indian Aviation: The Next Decade
Deirdre Fulton: May 14, 2024
This article is the first in a series that will focus on India's aviation market, which is growing at an astonishing...
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The Story of Airline Pricing Strategies
OAG: May 2, 2024
The past 50 years in commercial aviation have seen transformation and growth at unbelievable speed. There have been...