Before the pandemic disrupted the global tourism market, France was the most ...

Every month we track the travel recovery in China, in this analysis we explore ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

So here we are, it’s officially the winter season, although the temperatures in ...

The winter season is nearly upon us and we are doing our best to shake off the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

USD 22 Billion in Emergency Loans for Aviation Chinese aviation has been given ...

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

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

Global airline capacity bounces back this week with airlines scheduling 95.2m ...

Having failed to secure himself an invitation to the Queen’s Jubilee party this ...

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 ...

Observing, as we do at OAG, the changes in global airline capacity week by week ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The many re-formulations of travel restrictions that have been imposed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

OAG has been tracking airline capacity in the United States closely for a ...

Seats are not the same as passengers and just because aircraft fly, doesn’t ...

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 ...

What we mean by an Aviation Recovery As we get towards the end of 2021 and ...

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

There’s no doubt that Thailand’s tourism industry has suffered as a result of ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s daylight for less than six hours a day in the middle of winter in Oslo. ...

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

Over the past six months there have been numerous articles extolling the ...

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 ...

It’s no doubt that holiday and winter travel will look different this year. But ...

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 ...

For ten of the past thirteen weeks, scheduled airline capacity from Russian ...

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

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

Is there a Pattern to Island Recovery? For those of us in Europe it may feel ...

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

Changing Patterns of Travel Reflect Increase in Quasi Domestic and Migrant Work ...

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 ...

Capacity Remains Trapped As Major Markets Remain Closed.

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

It’s a summer of love for Greece as the masses head back to the one European ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keeping the Brand Alive Sometimes called ‘boomerang flights’, a number of well ...

As the long journey towards an aviation recovery begins, it’s a good time to ...

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 ...

Hainan Island in China, along with its airports, has seen a duty free shopping ...

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 ...

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 ...

UK's Busiest Route in April 2021 is Isles of Scilly to Land's End The fact that ...

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 ...

This week the Tasman Travel Bubble takes effect, allowing scheduled air travel ...

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

At OAG we’ve spent a year trying to understand how air travel will evolve ...

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 ...

The annual surge in summer visitors to Spain pre-COVID may have resulted in ...

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

After a long hiatus, the B737MAX is finally back in the air again. Approval was ...

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 ...

This month global scheduled airline capacity (seats) is down by 47% compared to ...

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 ...

This week, we’re taking a look at some of the biggest domestic markets and how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to believe that Beijing’s newest airport has been open for a year ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

OAG’s latest review of the World’s Top 20 Airlines – Take Off provides ...

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 ...

While the past four or five months have been tough times for airlines 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 ...

The past 30 weeks have seen the number of cancelled flights go through the roof ...

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; ...

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 Long-Haul Routes Which European Secondary Airports Could Lose 40%. 50%. ...

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 ...

Early COVID-19 Action Appears to Pay Dividends

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

Consumers fearful while industry insiders more confident about travel ...

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 ...

Research and Insight from OAG’s latest webinar As we move from crisis mode to ...

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 ...

How low can we go? Which airlines will fare better? What is appropriate ...

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

Last week we launched a webinar series looking at the impact of COVID-19 on the ...

Covid-19 (coronavirus disease/2019-nCoV) has impacted the airline and the ...