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China Southern’s Guangzhou hub ranks just ahead of Etihad and Abu Dhabi thanks to their six-destination Australia network, compared to Etihad’s Sydney and Melbourne focus. Since all those connections originate from London Heathrow with United Airlines as the carrier , the appearance of San Francisco in the top eight connecting points is interesting, as United also offer connections to Sydney and Melbourne via their Los Angeles hub.
The most and least efficient ways to fly UK-Australia
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The distance between London and Sydney is 9,178 nautical miles. For travellers a key consideration is getting to and from their destination in the fastest and most direct manner possible, so routing choice matters. The tightest options to Sydney - via Hong Kong, Taipei or Guangzhou - track at 100% circuitry, meaning zero deviation from the most direct path. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur add barely one percent, or roughly 100 miles.
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At the other end of the spectrum is Air Canada’s indirect routing via Toronto, at some 13,215 nautical miles from London to Sydney - with a near eight-hour connection in Toronto and a transit stop in Vancouver - it’s no surprise that AC33 takes two days to arrive in Sydney (although crossing the international date line doesn’t help the routing). In general, taking a westerly routing from the UK to Australia typically results in a 25% longer routing than one that goes via the Middle East, which normally includes less than a 10% deviation from the most direct routing.
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There Still are Plenty of Options for Flying to Australia (if They're Not Booked Up)
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Despite the current connectivity challenges of travelling via the Middle East, in theory, there remain multiple options to get from one side of the world to the other. However, with the Easter Holiday season approaching many of those alternate routings will have already filled their capacity, especially in the economy cabins, so finding an alternate routing may be a problem. And routing via the USA may require completing extra paperwork - entry forms, ESTA requirements, and even visa submissions in some cases - for passengers who would freely flow through hubs in Asia.
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Ultimately, it’s journey time, transfer simplicity and terminal comfort that drive traveller choice — and on all three measures, the Middle East hubs win. The Kangaroo Route will bounce back through Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi soon enough.
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It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
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An increasing share of the routings are through Middle East hubs with Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad building their whole business models on connecting traffic. The temporary closure of airspace over parts of the Middle East has disrupted that flow - but the aviation industry is nothing if not resilient, and travellers will return to Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi before long. In the short-term, though, does the disruption open a window for others?
\n
Major Gateway Airports Offer Hundreds Of Connecting Opportunities to Australia
\n
Every week, some 2,300 connecting flights operate between the United Kingdom and Australia across 26 gateways, each lasting eight hours or less. Emirates is the market leader through Dubai, serving eight UK markets with over 580 weekly connections - 50% more than Singapore in second spot. Doha ranks in third place with over 250 weekly connections, with the airlines 49 weekly flights offering more connectivity from London Heathrow than Emirates’ 42 weekly services.
\n
\n
China Southern’s Guangzhou hub ranks just ahead of Etihad and Abu Dhabi thanks to their six-destination Australia network, compared to Etihad’s Sydney and Melbourne focus. Since all those connections originate from London Heathrow with United Airlines as the carrier , the appearance of San Francisco in the top eight connecting points is interesting, as United also offer connections to Sydney and Melbourne via their Los Angeles hub.
The most and least efficient ways to fly UK-Australia
\n
The distance between London and Sydney is 9,178 nautical miles. For travellers a key consideration is getting to and from their destination in the fastest and most direct manner possible, so routing choice matters. The tightest options to Sydney - via Hong Kong, Taipei or Guangzhou - track at 100% circuitry, meaning zero deviation from the most direct path. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur add barely one percent, or roughly 100 miles.
\n
At the other end of the spectrum is Air Canada’s indirect routing via Toronto, at some 13,215 nautical miles from London to Sydney - with a near eight-hour connection in Toronto and a transit stop in Vancouver - it’s no surprise that AC33 takes two days to arrive in Sydney (although crossing the international date line doesn’t help the routing). In general, taking a westerly routing from the UK to Australia typically results in a 25% longer routing than one that goes via the Middle East, which normally includes less than a 10% deviation from the most direct routing.
\n
There Still are Plenty of Options for Flying to Australia (if They're Not Booked Up)
\n
Despite the current connectivity challenges of travelling via the Middle East, in theory, there remain multiple options to get from one side of the world to the other. However, with the Easter Holiday season approaching many of those alternate routings will have already filled their capacity, especially in the economy cabins, so finding an alternate routing may be a problem. And routing via the USA may require completing extra paperwork - entry forms, ESTA requirements, and even visa submissions in some cases - for passengers who would freely flow through hubs in Asia.
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Ultimately, it’s journey time, transfer simplicity and terminal comfort that drive traveller choice — and on all three measures, the Middle East hubs win. The Kangaroo Route will bounce back through Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi soon enough.
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It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
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An increasing share of the routings are through Middle East hubs with Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad building their whole business models on connecting traffic. The temporary closure of airspace over parts of the Middle East has disrupted that flow - but the aviation industry is nothing if not resilient, and travellers will return to Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi before long. In the short-term, though, does the disruption open a window for others?
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Major Gateway Airports Offer Hundreds Of Connecting Opportunities to Australia
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Every week, some 2,300 connecting flights operate between the United Kingdom and Australia across 26 gateways, each lasting eight hours or less. Emirates is the market leader through Dubai, serving eight UK markets with over 580 weekly connections - 50% more than Singapore in second spot. Doha ranks in third place with over 250 weekly connections, with the airlines 49 weekly flights offering more connectivity from London Heathrow than Emirates’ 42 weekly services.
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China Southern’s Guangzhou hub ranks just ahead of Etihad and Abu Dhabi thanks to their six-destination Australia network, compared to Etihad’s Sydney and Melbourne focus. Since all those connections originate from London Heathrow with United Airlines as the carrier , the appearance of San Francisco in the top eight connecting points is interesting, as United also offer connections to Sydney and Melbourne via their Los Angeles hub.
The most and least efficient ways to fly UK-Australia
\n
The distance between London and Sydney is 9,178 nautical miles. For travellers a key consideration is getting to and from their destination in the fastest and most direct manner possible, so routing choice matters. The tightest options to Sydney - via Hong Kong, Taipei or Guangzhou - track at 100% circuitry, meaning zero deviation from the most direct path. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur add barely one percent, or roughly 100 miles.
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At the other end of the spectrum is Air Canada’s indirect routing via Toronto, at some 13,215 nautical miles from London to Sydney - with a near eight-hour connection in Toronto and a transit stop in Vancouver - it’s no surprise that AC33 takes two days to arrive in Sydney (although crossing the international date line doesn’t help the routing). In general, taking a westerly routing from the UK to Australia typically results in a 25% longer routing than one that goes via the Middle East, which normally includes less than a 10% deviation from the most direct routing.
\n
There Still are Plenty of Options for Flying to Australia (if They're Not Booked Up)
\n
Despite the current connectivity challenges of travelling via the Middle East, in theory, there remain multiple options to get from one side of the world to the other. However, with the Easter Holiday season approaching many of those alternate routings will have already filled their capacity, especially in the economy cabins, so finding an alternate routing may be a problem. And routing via the USA may require completing extra paperwork - entry forms, ESTA requirements, and even visa submissions in some cases - for passengers who would freely flow through hubs in Asia.
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Ultimately, it’s journey time, transfer simplicity and terminal comfort that drive traveller choice — and on all three measures, the Middle East hubs win. The Kangaroo Route will bounce back through Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi soon enough.
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It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
\n
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An increasing share of the routings are through Middle East hubs with Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad building their whole business models on connecting traffic. The temporary closure of airspace over parts of the Middle East has disrupted that flow - but the aviation industry is nothing if not resilient, and travellers will return to Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi before long. In the short-term, though, does the disruption open a window for others?
\n
Major Gateway Airports Offer Hundreds Of Connecting Opportunities to Australia
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Every week, some 2,300 connecting flights operate between the United Kingdom and Australia across 26 gateways, each lasting eight hours or less. Emirates is the market leader through Dubai, serving eight UK markets with over 580 weekly connections - 50% more than Singapore in second spot. Doha ranks in third place with over 250 weekly connections, with the airlines 49 weekly flights offering more connectivity from London Heathrow than Emirates’ 42 weekly services.
\n
\n
China Southern’s Guangzhou hub ranks just ahead of Etihad and Abu Dhabi thanks to their six-destination Australia network, compared to Etihad’s Sydney and Melbourne focus. Since all those connections originate from London Heathrow with United Airlines as the carrier , the appearance of San Francisco in the top eight connecting points is interesting, as United also offer connections to Sydney and Melbourne via their Los Angeles hub.
The most and least efficient ways to fly UK-Australia
\n
The distance between London and Sydney is 9,178 nautical miles. For travellers a key consideration is getting to and from their destination in the fastest and most direct manner possible, so routing choice matters. The tightest options to Sydney - via Hong Kong, Taipei or Guangzhou - track at 100% circuitry, meaning zero deviation from the most direct path. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur add barely one percent, or roughly 100 miles.
\n
At the other end of the spectrum is Air Canada’s indirect routing via Toronto, at some 13,215 nautical miles from London to Sydney - with a near eight-hour connection in Toronto and a transit stop in Vancouver - it’s no surprise that AC33 takes two days to arrive in Sydney (although crossing the international date line doesn’t help the routing). In general, taking a westerly routing from the UK to Australia typically results in a 25% longer routing than one that goes via the Middle East, which normally includes less than a 10% deviation from the most direct routing.
\n
There Still are Plenty of Options for Flying to Australia (if They're Not Booked Up)
\n
Despite the current connectivity challenges of travelling via the Middle East, in theory, there remain multiple options to get from one side of the world to the other. However, with the Easter Holiday season approaching many of those alternate routings will have already filled their capacity, especially in the economy cabins, so finding an alternate routing may be a problem. And routing via the USA may require completing extra paperwork - entry forms, ESTA requirements, and even visa submissions in some cases - for passengers who would freely flow through hubs in Asia.
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Ultimately, it’s journey time, transfer simplicity and terminal comfort that drive traveller choice — and on all three measures, the Middle East hubs win. The Kangaroo Route will bounce back through Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi soon enough.
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It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
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It’s one of the iconic markets, the “Kangaroo Route” between Australia and the United Kingdom is aptly named - once requiring two or even three hops, it’s been a single stop-over for decades.
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An increasing share of the routings are through Middle East hubs with Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad building their whole business models on connecting traffic. The temporary closure of airspace over parts of the Middle East has disrupted that flow - but the aviation industry is nothing if not resilient, and travellers will return to Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi before long. In the short-term, though, does the disruption open a window for others?
\n
Major Gateway Airports Offer Hundreds Of Connecting Opportunities to Australia
\n
Every week, some 2,300 connecting flights operate between the United Kingdom and Australia across 26 gateways, each lasting eight hours or less. Emirates is the market leader through Dubai, serving eight UK markets with over 580 weekly connections - 50% more than Singapore in second spot. Doha ranks in third place with over 250 weekly connections, with the airlines 49 weekly flights offering more connectivity from London Heathrow than Emirates’ 42 weekly services.
\n
\n
China Southern’s Guangzhou hub ranks just ahead of Etihad and Abu Dhabi thanks to their six-destination Australia network, compared to Etihad’s Sydney and Melbourne focus. Since all those connections originate from London Heathrow with United Airlines as the carrier , the appearance of San Francisco in the top eight connecting points is interesting, as United also offer connections to Sydney and Melbourne via their Los Angeles hub.
The most and least efficient ways to fly UK-Australia
\n
The distance between London and Sydney is 9,178 nautical miles. For travellers a key consideration is getting to and from their destination in the fastest and most direct manner possible, so routing choice matters. The tightest options to Sydney - via Hong Kong, Taipei or Guangzhou - track at 100% circuitry, meaning zero deviation from the most direct path. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur add barely one percent, or roughly 100 miles.
\n
At the other end of the spectrum is Air Canada’s indirect routing via Toronto, at some 13,215 nautical miles from London to Sydney - with a near eight-hour connection in Toronto and a transit stop in Vancouver - it’s no surprise that AC33 takes two days to arrive in Sydney (although crossing the international date line doesn’t help the routing). In general, taking a westerly routing from the UK to Australia typically results in a 25% longer routing than one that goes via the Middle East, which normally includes less than a 10% deviation from the most direct routing.
\n
There Still are Plenty of Options for Flying to Australia (if They're Not Booked Up)
\n
Despite the current connectivity challenges of travelling via the Middle East, in theory, there remain multiple options to get from one side of the world to the other. However, with the Easter Holiday season approaching many of those alternate routings will have already filled their capacity, especially in the economy cabins, so finding an alternate routing may be a problem. And routing via the USA may require completing extra paperwork - entry forms, ESTA requirements, and even visa submissions in some cases - for passengers who would freely flow through hubs in Asia.
\n
Ultimately, it’s journey time, transfer simplicity and terminal comfort that drive traveller choice — and on all three measures, the Middle East hubs win. The Kangaroo Route will bounce back through Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi soon enough.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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The panel discussed:
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What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
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How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
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What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
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Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
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The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
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Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
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The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
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Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
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Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
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The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
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unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
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Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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The panel discussed:
\n\n
\n
What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
\n
How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
\n
What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
\n
\n
Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
\n
The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
\n
Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
\n
\n
\n
Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
\n
The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
\n
\n
unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
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Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
\n
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Watch the full webinar:
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There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n\n
\n
What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
\n
How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
\n
What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
\n
\n
Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
\n
The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
\n
Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
\n
\n
\n
Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
\n
The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
\n
\n
unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
\n
Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n\n
\n
What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
\n
How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
\n
What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
\n
\n
Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
\n
The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
\n
Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
\n
\n
\n
Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
\n
The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
\n
\n
unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
\n
Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n\n
\n
What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
\n
How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
\n
What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
\n
\n
Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
\n
The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
\n
Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
\n
\n
\n
Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
\n
The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
\n
\n
unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
\n
Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association)\n to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.\n
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n\n
\n
What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
\n
How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
\n
What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
\n
\n
Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
\n
The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
\n
Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
\n
\n
\n
Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
\n
The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
\n
\n
unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
\n
Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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The panel discussed:
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What is driving growth in Australia's air capacity right now?
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How has the landscape for travel at home and abroad changed in the last decade?
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What challenges lie ahead for the industry?
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Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
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The evolution of the australian airline market: jetstar strategic growth
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Jetstar was launched by Qantas Group in 2004 following the collapse of Ansett and the competitive entry of Virgin Blue (now Virgin Australia).
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The airline experienced significant growth in leisure destinations such as the Gold Coast, Tasmania, and parts of regional Queensland and New South Wales.
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Despite initial rapid growth, the later years have shown relatively flat domestic capacity and growth within the market.
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Embracing seamless travel: the future of arrivals
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The panel discuss the importance of eliminating the traditional arrivals card to facilitate a more seamless travel experience by 2030, and highlight the role of biometric technology in revolutionising the travel process with the aim of creating a more efficient and integrated journey for travelers.
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unlocking the potential: electric aircraft as a catalyst for a regional airport growth in australia
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Whilst this topic may not currently dominate industry discussions, its potential impact on regional hubs is significant. Electric aircraft present an exciting opportunity for regional airports in Australia, offering a pathway to enhance connectivity and sustainability.
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Watch the full webinar:
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There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Simon Westaway (CEO of the Australian Airports Association) to discuss the latest trends shaping Australia's aviation market, exploring capacity growth, evolving travel patterns, and the challenges influencing the industry's next chapter.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
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In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
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In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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US Airlines’ International Growth: What the Data Shows
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Comparing the number of countries served shows modest expansion since 2019 for Delta and United, while American Airlines now operates to fewer markets. A more short-term comparison of this year’s schedules against the summer 2025 programme shows United dropping three country markets, while Delta and American are adding new destinations.
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United’s loss of three country markets this summer compared with last year is not unexpected. Cuba remains politically complex for US carriers, while Sweden presents commercial challenges following SAS joining the SkyTeam alliance.
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Delta’s new destinations combine strategic moves and seasonal opportunities. Malta will operate as a summer-only route, two Caribbean destinations extend winter programmes, and Saudi Arabia reflects plans for a future partnership with Riyadh Air - assuming the airline launches services in 2026.
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American Airlines’ additions are largely leisure-driven. Services to the Czech Republic and Hungary are summer-focused, while the New Zealand launch consists of a single flight aligned with the start of the winter schedule.
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Intriguingly, across the three carriers, there are very different development strategies that in part reflect recent long-haul aircraft deliveries and strategic partnerships with other carriers around the globe.
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American Airlines: A Caribbean and Central America Focus
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Since Summer 2019, American Airlines has concentrated its international growth in the Caribbean and Central America. The airline has added ten Caribbean destinations, including Bridgetown, Tortola, and Anguilla.
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In Central America, Mexico and Costa Rica have seen frequency increases of 17% and 33% respectively. Dallas–Fort Worth has experienced the largest growth, with more than 1,500 additional flights since 2019. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Austin Bergstrom have both gained new services to Central America.
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Growth in services to European destinations has been broadly consistent across all of the airline's hub airports. Philadelphia has seen the largest growth, with increases in frequency to Milan, Nice, Naples, and Copenhagen compared to Summer 2025.
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Delta Air Lines: Leveraging the European Market
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The European market has always been a key part of Delta’s international network, and since 2019 it has been the focus market for growth from the airline while all other regional markets have seen frequency drops. The carrier has added around nine daily flights to its European network, more than doubling frequencies to Italy as former commercial agreements with the Alitalia ceased, while reducing operations to Germany by 25% as the market continues to lag in its recovery. Intriguingly, this summer Delta will increase operations to Spain by 18% with a new Boston – Madrid service alongside existing services from Atlanta and New York.
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United Airlines: Broad International Expansion
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While its two major local competitors are perhaps more cautious in their international growth plans, United Airlines has pursued a broader international expansion strategy ,with Latin America and Europe seeing the largest gains. European frequencies have risen by 36%, with new summer routes to Glasgow and Bari highlighting the airline’s focus on seasonal leisure markets. Despite some route turnover, the only notable destination missing from United’s Summer 2019 network is Manchester, previously served daily from Newark.
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United’s expansion also extends to Africa and the Southwest Pacific, markets it entered in Summer 2022 and continued to add frequency. Johannesburg now operates daily, Cape Town six times weekly, and both Lagos and Accra are year-round destinations. In Australia, United operates more than 850 summer flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles combined, serving Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
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A key factor behind this growth has been United’s expanding Boeing 787 fleet, which now exceeds 80 aircraft. The aircraft’s efficiency has improved the economics of long-haul “long and thin” routes, giving United a cost advantage over both American and Delta.
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Looking Ahead
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In the coming years, international networks will continue to evolve. Some destinations will be added, while others inevitably disappear as demand shifts. Leisure hotspots may fade, geopolitical factors may reshape markets, and partnerships will continue to influence route strategies.
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With all three US majors holding substantial long-haul aircraft orders and new market opportunities emerging, further international expansion across their networks appears highly likely.
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\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
\n
\n
US Airlines’ International Growth: What the Data Shows
\n
Comparing the number of countries served shows modest expansion since 2019 for Delta and United, while American Airlines now operates to fewer markets. A more short-term comparison of this year’s schedules against the summer 2025 programme shows United dropping three country markets, while Delta and American are adding new destinations.
\n
\n
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United’s loss of three country markets this summer compared with last year is not unexpected. Cuba remains politically complex for US carriers, while Sweden presents commercial challenges following SAS joining the SkyTeam alliance.
\n
Delta’s new destinations combine strategic moves and seasonal opportunities. Malta will operate as a summer-only route, two Caribbean destinations extend winter programmes, and Saudi Arabia reflects plans for a future partnership with Riyadh Air - assuming the airline launches services in 2026.
\n
American Airlines’ additions are largely leisure-driven. Services to the Czech Republic and Hungary are summer-focused, while the New Zealand launch consists of a single flight aligned with the start of the winter schedule.
\n
\n
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Intriguingly, across the three carriers, there are very different development strategies that in part reflect recent long-haul aircraft deliveries and strategic partnerships with other carriers around the globe.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
American Airlines: A Caribbean and Central America Focus
\n
Since Summer 2019, American Airlines has concentrated its international growth in the Caribbean and Central America. The airline has added ten Caribbean destinations, including Bridgetown, Tortola, and Anguilla.
\n
In Central America, Mexico and Costa Rica have seen frequency increases of 17% and 33% respectively. Dallas–Fort Worth has experienced the largest growth, with more than 1,500 additional flights since 2019. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Austin Bergstrom have both gained new services to Central America.
\n
Growth in services to European destinations has been broadly consistent across all of the airline's hub airports. Philadelphia has seen the largest growth, with increases in frequency to Milan, Nice, Naples, and Copenhagen compared to Summer 2025.
\n
\n
Delta Air Lines: Leveraging the European Market
\n
The European market has always been a key part of Delta’s international network, and since 2019 it has been the focus market for growth from the airline while all other regional markets have seen frequency drops. The carrier has added around nine daily flights to its European network, more than doubling frequencies to Italy as former commercial agreements with the Alitalia ceased, while reducing operations to Germany by 25% as the market continues to lag in its recovery. Intriguingly, this summer Delta will increase operations to Spain by 18% with a new Boston – Madrid service alongside existing services from Atlanta and New York.
\n
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United Airlines: Broad International Expansion
\n
While its two major local competitors are perhaps more cautious in their international growth plans, United Airlines has pursued a broader international expansion strategy ,with Latin America and Europe seeing the largest gains. European frequencies have risen by 36%, with new summer routes to Glasgow and Bari highlighting the airline’s focus on seasonal leisure markets. Despite some route turnover, the only notable destination missing from United’s Summer 2019 network is Manchester, previously served daily from Newark.
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United’s expansion also extends to Africa and the Southwest Pacific, markets it entered in Summer 2022 and continued to add frequency. Johannesburg now operates daily, Cape Town six times weekly, and both Lagos and Accra are year-round destinations. In Australia, United operates more than 850 summer flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles combined, serving Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
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A key factor behind this growth has been United’s expanding Boeing 787 fleet, which now exceeds 80 aircraft. The aircraft’s efficiency has improved the economics of long-haul “long and thin” routes, giving United a cost advantage over both American and Delta.
\n
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Looking Ahead
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In the coming years, international networks will continue to evolve. Some destinations will be added, while others inevitably disappear as demand shifts. Leisure hotspots may fade, geopolitical factors may reshape markets, and partnerships will continue to influence route strategies.
\n
With all three US majors holding substantial long-haul aircraft orders and new market opportunities emerging, further international expansion across their networks appears highly likely.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
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In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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US Airlines’ International Growth: What the Data Shows
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Comparing the number of countries served shows modest expansion since 2019 for Delta and United, while American Airlines now operates to fewer markets. A more short-term comparison of this year’s schedules against the summer 2025 programme shows United dropping three country markets, while Delta and American are adding new destinations.
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United’s loss of three country markets this summer compared with last year is not unexpected. Cuba remains politically complex for US carriers, while Sweden presents commercial challenges following SAS joining the SkyTeam alliance.
\n
Delta’s new destinations combine strategic moves and seasonal opportunities. Malta will operate as a summer-only route, two Caribbean destinations extend winter programmes, and Saudi Arabia reflects plans for a future partnership with Riyadh Air - assuming the airline launches services in 2026.
\n
American Airlines’ additions are largely leisure-driven. Services to the Czech Republic and Hungary are summer-focused, while the New Zealand launch consists of a single flight aligned with the start of the winter schedule.
\n
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Intriguingly, across the three carriers, there are very different development strategies that in part reflect recent long-haul aircraft deliveries and strategic partnerships with other carriers around the globe.
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American Airlines: A Caribbean and Central America Focus
\n
Since Summer 2019, American Airlines has concentrated its international growth in the Caribbean and Central America. The airline has added ten Caribbean destinations, including Bridgetown, Tortola, and Anguilla.
\n
In Central America, Mexico and Costa Rica have seen frequency increases of 17% and 33% respectively. Dallas–Fort Worth has experienced the largest growth, with more than 1,500 additional flights since 2019. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Austin Bergstrom have both gained new services to Central America.
\n
Growth in services to European destinations has been broadly consistent across all of the airline's hub airports. Philadelphia has seen the largest growth, with increases in frequency to Milan, Nice, Naples, and Copenhagen compared to Summer 2025.
\n
\n
Delta Air Lines: Leveraging the European Market
\n
The European market has always been a key part of Delta’s international network, and since 2019 it has been the focus market for growth from the airline while all other regional markets have seen frequency drops. The carrier has added around nine daily flights to its European network, more than doubling frequencies to Italy as former commercial agreements with the Alitalia ceased, while reducing operations to Germany by 25% as the market continues to lag in its recovery. Intriguingly, this summer Delta will increase operations to Spain by 18% with a new Boston – Madrid service alongside existing services from Atlanta and New York.
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\n
United Airlines: Broad International Expansion
\n
While its two major local competitors are perhaps more cautious in their international growth plans, United Airlines has pursued a broader international expansion strategy ,with Latin America and Europe seeing the largest gains. European frequencies have risen by 36%, with new summer routes to Glasgow and Bari highlighting the airline’s focus on seasonal leisure markets. Despite some route turnover, the only notable destination missing from United’s Summer 2019 network is Manchester, previously served daily from Newark.
\n
United’s expansion also extends to Africa and the Southwest Pacific, markets it entered in Summer 2022 and continued to add frequency. Johannesburg now operates daily, Cape Town six times weekly, and both Lagos and Accra are year-round destinations. In Australia, United operates more than 850 summer flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles combined, serving Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
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A key factor behind this growth has been United’s expanding Boeing 787 fleet, which now exceeds 80 aircraft. The aircraft’s efficiency has improved the economics of long-haul “long and thin” routes, giving United a cost advantage over both American and Delta.
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\n
Looking Ahead
\n
In the coming years, international networks will continue to evolve. Some destinations will be added, while others inevitably disappear as demand shifts. Leisure hotspots may fade, geopolitical factors may reshape markets, and partnerships will continue to influence route strategies.
\n
With all three US majors holding substantial long-haul aircraft orders and new market opportunities emerging, further international expansion across their networks appears highly likely.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
\n
\n
US Airlines’ International Growth: What the Data Shows
\n
Comparing the number of countries served shows modest expansion since 2019 for Delta and United, while American Airlines now operates to fewer markets. A more short-term comparison of this year’s schedules against the summer 2025 programme shows United dropping three country markets, while Delta and American are adding new destinations.
\n
\n
\n
United’s loss of three country markets this summer compared with last year is not unexpected. Cuba remains politically complex for US carriers, while Sweden presents commercial challenges following SAS joining the SkyTeam alliance.
\n
Delta’s new destinations combine strategic moves and seasonal opportunities. Malta will operate as a summer-only route, two Caribbean destinations extend winter programmes, and Saudi Arabia reflects plans for a future partnership with Riyadh Air - assuming the airline launches services in 2026.
\n
American Airlines’ additions are largely leisure-driven. Services to the Czech Republic and Hungary are summer-focused, while the New Zealand launch consists of a single flight aligned with the start of the winter schedule.
\n
\n
\n
Intriguingly, across the three carriers, there are very different development strategies that in part reflect recent long-haul aircraft deliveries and strategic partnerships with other carriers around the globe.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
American Airlines: A Caribbean and Central America Focus
\n
Since Summer 2019, American Airlines has concentrated its international growth in the Caribbean and Central America. The airline has added ten Caribbean destinations, including Bridgetown, Tortola, and Anguilla.
\n
In Central America, Mexico and Costa Rica have seen frequency increases of 17% and 33% respectively. Dallas–Fort Worth has experienced the largest growth, with more than 1,500 additional flights since 2019. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Austin Bergstrom have both gained new services to Central America.
\n
Growth in services to European destinations has been broadly consistent across all of the airline's hub airports. Philadelphia has seen the largest growth, with increases in frequency to Milan, Nice, Naples, and Copenhagen compared to Summer 2025.
\n
\n
Delta Air Lines: Leveraging the European Market
\n
The European market has always been a key part of Delta’s international network, and since 2019 it has been the focus market for growth from the airline while all other regional markets have seen frequency drops. The carrier has added around nine daily flights to its European network, more than doubling frequencies to Italy as former commercial agreements with the Alitalia ceased, while reducing operations to Germany by 25% as the market continues to lag in its recovery. Intriguingly, this summer Delta will increase operations to Spain by 18% with a new Boston – Madrid service alongside existing services from Atlanta and New York.
\n
\n
United Airlines: Broad International Expansion
\n
While its two major local competitors are perhaps more cautious in their international growth plans, United Airlines has pursued a broader international expansion strategy ,with Latin America and Europe seeing the largest gains. European frequencies have risen by 36%, with new summer routes to Glasgow and Bari highlighting the airline’s focus on seasonal leisure markets. Despite some route turnover, the only notable destination missing from United’s Summer 2019 network is Manchester, previously served daily from Newark.
\n
United’s expansion also extends to Africa and the Southwest Pacific, markets it entered in Summer 2022 and continued to add frequency. Johannesburg now operates daily, Cape Town six times weekly, and both Lagos and Accra are year-round destinations. In Australia, United operates more than 850 summer flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles combined, serving Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
\n
A key factor behind this growth has been United’s expanding Boeing 787 fleet, which now exceeds 80 aircraft. The aircraft’s efficiency has improved the economics of long-haul “long and thin” routes, giving United a cost advantage over both American and Delta.
\n
\n
Looking Ahead
\n
In the coming years, international networks will continue to evolve. Some destinations will be added, while others inevitably disappear as demand shifts. Leisure hotspots may fade, geopolitical factors may reshape markets, and partnerships will continue to influence route strategies.
\n
With all three US majors holding substantial long-haul aircraft orders and new market opportunities emerging, further international expansion across their networks appears highly likely.
\n
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
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The US market has long been considered one of the most mature on the planet; modest year-on-year growth, some chopping and changing of destinations and connectivity to major hubs, and a perception of limited international growth - but is that still true?
\n
In recent years, the big three US legacy airlines have launched more new year-round and seasonal services than ever, responding to shifting geopolitics and factors like the strength of the US dollar. Here, we dive into the data to explore what is a dynamic story of change.
\n
\n
US Airlines’ International Growth: What the Data Shows
\n
Comparing the number of countries served shows modest expansion since 2019 for Delta and United, while American Airlines now operates to fewer markets. A more short-term comparison of this year’s schedules against the summer 2025 programme shows United dropping three country markets, while Delta and American are adding new destinations.
\n
\n
\n
United’s loss of three country markets this summer compared with last year is not unexpected. Cuba remains politically complex for US carriers, while Sweden presents commercial challenges following SAS joining the SkyTeam alliance.
\n
Delta’s new destinations combine strategic moves and seasonal opportunities. Malta will operate as a summer-only route, two Caribbean destinations extend winter programmes, and Saudi Arabia reflects plans for a future partnership with Riyadh Air - assuming the airline launches services in 2026.
\n
American Airlines’ additions are largely leisure-driven. Services to the Czech Republic and Hungary are summer-focused, while the New Zealand launch consists of a single flight aligned with the start of the winter schedule.
\n
\n
\n
Intriguingly, across the three carriers, there are very different development strategies that in part reflect recent long-haul aircraft deliveries and strategic partnerships with other carriers around the globe.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
American Airlines: A Caribbean and Central America Focus
\n
Since Summer 2019, American Airlines has concentrated its international growth in the Caribbean and Central America. The airline has added ten Caribbean destinations, including Bridgetown, Tortola, and Anguilla.
\n
In Central America, Mexico and Costa Rica have seen frequency increases of 17% and 33% respectively. Dallas–Fort Worth has experienced the largest growth, with more than 1,500 additional flights since 2019. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Austin Bergstrom have both gained new services to Central America.
\n
Growth in services to European destinations has been broadly consistent across all of the airline's hub airports. Philadelphia has seen the largest growth, with increases in frequency to Milan, Nice, Naples, and Copenhagen compared to Summer 2025.
\n
\n
Delta Air Lines: Leveraging the European Market
\n
The European market has always been a key part of Delta’s international network, and since 2019 it has been the focus market for growth from the airline while all other regional markets have seen frequency drops. The carrier has added around nine daily flights to its European network, more than doubling frequencies to Italy as former commercial agreements with the Alitalia ceased, while reducing operations to Germany by 25% as the market continues to lag in its recovery. Intriguingly, this summer Delta will increase operations to Spain by 18% with a new Boston – Madrid service alongside existing services from Atlanta and New York.
\n
\n
United Airlines: Broad International Expansion
\n
While its two major local competitors are perhaps more cautious in their international growth plans, United Airlines has pursued a broader international expansion strategy ,with Latin America and Europe seeing the largest gains. European frequencies have risen by 36%, with new summer routes to Glasgow and Bari highlighting the airline’s focus on seasonal leisure markets. Despite some route turnover, the only notable destination missing from United’s Summer 2019 network is Manchester, previously served daily from Newark.
\n
United’s expansion also extends to Africa and the Southwest Pacific, markets it entered in Summer 2022 and continued to add frequency. Johannesburg now operates daily, Cape Town six times weekly, and both Lagos and Accra are year-round destinations. In Australia, United operates more than 850 summer flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles combined, serving Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
\n
A key factor behind this growth has been United’s expanding Boeing 787 fleet, which now exceeds 80 aircraft. The aircraft’s efficiency has improved the economics of long-haul “long and thin” routes, giving United a cost advantage over both American and Delta.
\n
\n
Looking Ahead
\n
In the coming years, international networks will continue to evolve. Some destinations will be added, while others inevitably disappear as demand shifts. Leisure hotspots may fade, geopolitical factors may reshape markets, and partnerships will continue to influence route strategies.
\n
With all three US majors holding substantial long-haul aircraft orders and new market opportunities emerging, further international expansion across their networks appears highly likely.
\n
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
\n\n
Highlights from the latest OTP monthly data:
\n
All airlines:
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\n
February is regarded as one of the hardest months to deliver on-time performance but last month saw some remarkable performances in this key area of operational metrics.
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While ranking second and third out of all airlines for OTP during the month, Star Flyer (93.9%) and FlySafair (93.8%) both reported no cancellations in some challenging conditions.
\n
Fuji Dream Airlines remains the most punctual carrier across their 2,000 plus flights in February with a 94% OTP, although they did cancel 15 flights.
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\n
Major airlines:
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Across the major carriers (those that operated more than 20,000 flights in the month), Hainan Airlines claimed first place with 86.5% OTP and a cancellation rate of 0.07% - remarkable given how harsh operating conditions can be in China at this time of year.
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British Airways continues its steady progress in punctuality, finishing in second place with 85.7% of flight arrivals on time.
\n
OneWorld partner Qantas were not far behind in third spot at 85.1%.
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Among the low-cost carriers in the major category, easyJet edged ahead of Ryanair with an OTP of 80.5%, narrowly surpassing its rival’s 80.4%.
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Large airlines:
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In the large category (airlines operating between 10,000 and 20,000 flights in the month) two carriers, COPA Airlines and Aeromexico, achieved OTP levels in excess of 90%. Both feature regularly at the top end of this category.
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Two carriers from the Middle East region appear in the top ten: Saudia which has been consistently improving performance recorded 88.6% OTP and Qatar Airways achieved 81.3%.
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North American Airlines:
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In the North American market, where monthly OTP is highly competitive, Alaska Airlines led February’s rankings with 84.6%, finishing more than three percentage points ahead of second-placed United Airlines on 81.3%.
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Adverse weather led to operational challenges in the region for several carriers, with Cape Air cancelling 8.1% of its scheduled services, JetBlue losing 7.5% of its schedule, and Spirit 7% of its planned operations.
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Congratulations to the top three major airlines achieving the best OTP in February:
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🥇 Hainan Airlines 🥈 British Airways 🥉 Qantas Airways
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View the full airline rankings by clicking on the button below
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How is Airline OTP Calculated?
\n
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Airline on-time performance is based on actual gatearrivaltimes. Flights that arrive within 15 minutes of the schedule are considered on time. Arriving 15 minutes or more after the scheduled time is considered not on time.
\n
Cancellations are included in our data and are considered not on-time.
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
\n","rss_body":"
February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
\n\n
Highlights from the latest OTP monthly data:
\n
All airlines:
\n
\n
February is regarded as one of the hardest months to deliver on-time performance but last month saw some remarkable performances in this key area of operational metrics.
\n
While ranking second and third out of all airlines for OTP during the month, Star Flyer (93.9%) and FlySafair (93.8%) both reported no cancellations in some challenging conditions.
\n
Fuji Dream Airlines remains the most punctual carrier across their 2,000 plus flights in February with a 94% OTP, although they did cancel 15 flights.
\n
\n
Major airlines:
\n
\n
Across the major carriers (those that operated more than 20,000 flights in the month), Hainan Airlines claimed first place with 86.5% OTP and a cancellation rate of 0.07% - remarkable given how harsh operating conditions can be in China at this time of year.
\n
British Airways continues its steady progress in punctuality, finishing in second place with 85.7% of flight arrivals on time.
\n
OneWorld partner Qantas were not far behind in third spot at 85.1%.
\n
Among the low-cost carriers in the major category, easyJet edged ahead of Ryanair with an OTP of 80.5%, narrowly surpassing its rival’s 80.4%.
\n
\n
Large airlines:
\n
\n
In the large category (airlines operating between 10,000 and 20,000 flights in the month) two carriers, COPA Airlines and Aeromexico, achieved OTP levels in excess of 90%. Both feature regularly at the top end of this category.
\n
Two carriers from the Middle East region appear in the top ten: Saudia which has been consistently improving performance recorded 88.6% OTP and Qatar Airways achieved 81.3%.
\n
\n
North American Airlines:
\n
\n
In the North American market, where monthly OTP is highly competitive, Alaska Airlines led February’s rankings with 84.6%, finishing more than three percentage points ahead of second-placed United Airlines on 81.3%.
\n
Adverse weather led to operational challenges in the region for several carriers, with Cape Air cancelling 8.1% of its scheduled services, JetBlue losing 7.5% of its schedule, and Spirit 7% of its planned operations.
\n
\n
\n
Congratulations to the top three major airlines achieving the best OTP in February:
\n
🥇 Hainan Airlines 🥈 British Airways 🥉 Qantas Airways
\n
\n
View the full airline rankings by clicking on the button below
\n
\n
How is Airline OTP Calculated?
\n
\n
Airline on-time performance is based on actual gatearrivaltimes. Flights that arrive within 15 minutes of the schedule are considered on time. Arriving 15 minutes or more after the scheduled time is considered not on time.
\n
Cancellations are included in our data and are considered not on-time.
\n
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
\n\n
Highlights from the latest OTP monthly data:
\n
All airlines:
\n
\n
February is regarded as one of the hardest months to deliver on-time performance but last month saw some remarkable performances in this key area of operational metrics.
\n
While ranking second and third out of all airlines for OTP during the month, Star Flyer (93.9%) and FlySafair (93.8%) both reported no cancellations in some challenging conditions.
\n
Fuji Dream Airlines remains the most punctual carrier across their 2,000 plus flights in February with a 94% OTP, although they did cancel 15 flights.
\n
\n
Major airlines:
\n
\n
Across the major carriers (those that operated more than 20,000 flights in the month), Hainan Airlines claimed first place with 86.5% OTP and a cancellation rate of 0.07% - remarkable given how harsh operating conditions can be in China at this time of year.
\n
British Airways continues its steady progress in punctuality, finishing in second place with 85.7% of flight arrivals on time.
\n
OneWorld partner Qantas were not far behind in third spot at 85.1%.
\n
Among the low-cost carriers in the major category, easyJet edged ahead of Ryanair with an OTP of 80.5%, narrowly surpassing its rival’s 80.4%.
\n
\n
Large airlines:
\n
\n
In the large category (airlines operating between 10,000 and 20,000 flights in the month) two carriers, COPA Airlines and Aeromexico, achieved OTP levels in excess of 90%. Both feature regularly at the top end of this category.
\n
Two carriers from the Middle East region appear in the top ten: Saudia which has been consistently improving performance recorded 88.6% OTP and Qatar Airways achieved 81.3%.
\n
\n
North American Airlines:
\n
\n
In the North American market, where monthly OTP is highly competitive, Alaska Airlines led February’s rankings with 84.6%, finishing more than three percentage points ahead of second-placed United Airlines on 81.3%.
\n
Adverse weather led to operational challenges in the region for several carriers, with Cape Air cancelling 8.1% of its scheduled services, JetBlue losing 7.5% of its schedule, and Spirit 7% of its planned operations.
\n
\n
\n
Congratulations to the top three major airlines achieving the best OTP in February:
\n
🥇 Hainan Airlines 🥈 British Airways 🥉 Qantas Airways
\n
\n
View the full airline rankings by clicking on the button below
\n
\n
How is Airline OTP Calculated?
\n
\n
Airline on-time performance is based on actual gatearrivaltimes. Flights that arrive within 15 minutes of the schedule are considered on time. Arriving 15 minutes or more after the scheduled time is considered not on time.
\n
Cancellations are included in our data and are considered not on-time.
\n
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
\n\n
Highlights from the latest OTP monthly data:
\n
All airlines:
\n
\n
February is regarded as one of the hardest months to deliver on-time performance but last month saw some remarkable performances in this key area of operational metrics.
\n
While ranking second and third out of all airlines for OTP during the month, Star Flyer (93.9%) and FlySafair (93.8%) both reported no cancellations in some challenging conditions.
\n
Fuji Dream Airlines remains the most punctual carrier across their 2,000 plus flights in February with a 94% OTP, although they did cancel 15 flights.
\n
\n
Major airlines:
\n
\n
Across the major carriers (those that operated more than 20,000 flights in the month), Hainan Airlines claimed first place with 86.5% OTP and a cancellation rate of 0.07% - remarkable given how harsh operating conditions can be in China at this time of year.
\n
British Airways continues its steady progress in punctuality, finishing in second place with 85.7% of flight arrivals on time.
\n
OneWorld partner Qantas were not far behind in third spot at 85.1%.
\n
Among the low-cost carriers in the major category, easyJet edged ahead of Ryanair with an OTP of 80.5%, narrowly surpassing its rival’s 80.4%.
\n
\n
Large airlines:
\n
\n
In the large category (airlines operating between 10,000 and 20,000 flights in the month) two carriers, COPA Airlines and Aeromexico, achieved OTP levels in excess of 90%. Both feature regularly at the top end of this category.
\n
Two carriers from the Middle East region appear in the top ten: Saudia which has been consistently improving performance recorded 88.6% OTP and Qatar Airways achieved 81.3%.
\n
\n
North American Airlines:
\n
\n
In the North American market, where monthly OTP is highly competitive, Alaska Airlines led February’s rankings with 84.6%, finishing more than three percentage points ahead of second-placed United Airlines on 81.3%.
\n
Adverse weather led to operational challenges in the region for several carriers, with Cape Air cancelling 8.1% of its scheduled services, JetBlue losing 7.5% of its schedule, and Spirit 7% of its planned operations.
\n
\n
\n
Congratulations to the top three major airlines achieving the best OTP in February:
\n
🥇 Hainan Airlines 🥈 British Airways 🥉 Qantas Airways
\n
\n
View the full airline rankings by clicking on the button below
\n
\n
How is Airline OTP Calculated?
\n
\n
Airline on-time performance is based on actual gatearrivaltimes. Flights that arrive within 15 minutes of the schedule are considered on time. Arriving 15 minutes or more after the scheduled time is considered not on time.
\n
Cancellations are included in our data and are considered not on-time.
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
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February’s on-time performance (OTP) rankings are now available. The data highlights the percentage of flights that arrived on schedule.
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Highlights from the latest OTP monthly data:
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All airlines:
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February is regarded as one of the hardest months to deliver on-time performance but last month saw some remarkable performances in this key area of operational metrics.
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While ranking second and third out of all airlines for OTP during the month, Star Flyer (93.9%) and FlySafair (93.8%) both reported no cancellations in some challenging conditions.
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Fuji Dream Airlines remains the most punctual carrier across their 2,000 plus flights in February with a 94% OTP, although they did cancel 15 flights.
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Major airlines:
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Across the major carriers (those that operated more than 20,000 flights in the month), Hainan Airlines claimed first place with 86.5% OTP and a cancellation rate of 0.07% - remarkable given how harsh operating conditions can be in China at this time of year.
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British Airways continues its steady progress in punctuality, finishing in second place with 85.7% of flight arrivals on time.
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OneWorld partner Qantas were not far behind in third spot at 85.1%.
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Among the low-cost carriers in the major category, easyJet edged ahead of Ryanair with an OTP of 80.5%, narrowly surpassing its rival’s 80.4%.
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Large airlines:
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In the large category (airlines operating between 10,000 and 20,000 flights in the month) two carriers, COPA Airlines and Aeromexico, achieved OTP levels in excess of 90%. Both feature regularly at the top end of this category.
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Two carriers from the Middle East region appear in the top ten: Saudia which has been consistently improving performance recorded 88.6% OTP and Qatar Airways achieved 81.3%.
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North American Airlines:
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In the North American market, where monthly OTP is highly competitive, Alaska Airlines led February’s rankings with 84.6%, finishing more than three percentage points ahead of second-placed United Airlines on 81.3%.
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Adverse weather led to operational challenges in the region for several carriers, with Cape Air cancelling 8.1% of its scheduled services, JetBlue losing 7.5% of its schedule, and Spirit 7% of its planned operations.
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Congratulations to the top three major airlines achieving the best OTP in February:
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🥇 Hainan Airlines 🥈 British Airways 🥉 Qantas Airways
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View the full airline rankings by clicking on the button below
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How is Airline OTP Calculated?
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Airline on-time performance is based on actual gatearrivaltimes. Flights that arrive within 15 minutes of the schedule are considered on time. Arriving 15 minutes or more after the scheduled time is considered not on time.
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Cancellations are included in our data and are considered not on-time.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
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In the past few weeks, three announcements landed that, taken together, suggest agentic AI in travel has crossed a threshold. Agentic is no longer a concept deck at travel-tech conferences. Actual infrastructure, actual deployments, and actual partnerships are coming together, connecting real travelers, real inventory, and real payments.
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This matters in the context of where we left things in our January radar, where we reviewed 2025 and concluded that distribution remains the category where the most consequential travel-tech innovation is happening. The three innovations we highlight this month reinforce that conclusion and sharpen it.
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Key summary:
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Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip are building the travel industry’s first end-to-end agentic AI booking pipeline, combining conversational AI trip planning, real-time travel inventory (420+ airlines, 2M hotels), and integrated payment into a single chat-based experience—potentially redefining how travel is discovered, booked, and paid for when it launches in Q2 2026.
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Malaysia Airlines launched “Mavis,” an agentic AI customer service agent, built on Ada’s ACX platform, that autonomously handles travel queries and booking tasks across web, app, and email—marking a shift from basic chatbots to AI agents that can act on real airline systems.
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Skyscanner launched a ChatGPT app that lets users search for flights through natural language within ChatGPT, signaling a shift from traditional form-based metasearch to conversational travel discovery.
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Innovation #1: Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip Build the First End-to-End Agentic Booking Pipeline
Our industry is excited about AI, but we still lack a strong vision for what the consumer travel experience should become. We've got demos, experiments, and prototypes. What we don't have is a North Star, a compelling argument for how, in this cycle, the customer experience will evolve. And this matters, because without a vision for the front end, we can't build the right back end and infrastructure.
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The core challenge thus far is this: no single player in the travel stack owns the full chain.
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You need content (flights, hotels)
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You need intelligence (conversational AI that understands traveler intent)
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And you need commerce (a way to actually pay).
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Until now, these pieces have existed in separate silos. On February 12, Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip announced a partnership that potentially connects all three into what they describe as the travel industry's first end-to-end agentic AI booking system, with a planned launch in Q2 2026. It might be the agentic North Star our industry has been waiting for.
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Here's how it's supposed to work:
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A traveler describes their trip in natural language through MindTrip's conversational AI interface.
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MindTrip queries Sabre's Mosaic APIs, which provide access to more than 420 airlines and two million hotel properties worldwide.
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The AI presents curated, personalized options based on traveler preferences, context, and availability.
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PayPal's agentic commerce infrastructure handles payment within the conversational flow, completing the entire search-book-pay loop without the traveler ever leaving the conversation.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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Two things make this partnership so significant.
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First, it aims to solve the integration problem. The travel industry has seen plenty of AI chatbots that can talk about travel, and plenty of booking engines that can process transactions. But connecting real-time GDS inventory, conversational AI, and payment into a single, seamless pipeline is new. Importantly, this is not a demo or a prototype. Sabre is putting its full Mosaic content library behind this, and PayPal is deploying its agentic commerce stack (a system designed specifically for AI-to-system transactions).
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Second, this partnership signals a structural shift in who controls the booking funnel. Traditionally, that has been the domain of OTAs, airline direct channels, and metasearch. If a conversational AI agent can handle discovery, comparison, and purchase in a single interaction, the role of traditional booking interfaces changes fundamentally. The real question is whether consumers will trust an AI to select, book, and pay on their behalf (which they currently don’t). If they do, this type of integrated pipeline could become the default architecture for agentic travel commerce.
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Sabre's involvement is worth noting. We featured Sabre in our November 2025 edition for its AI-enhanced continuous pricing engine, which optimizes the back end. The PayPal-MindTrip collaboration is about reimagining the front end. Together, they paint a picture of a GDS provider positioning itself as core infrastructure for the AI era.
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Innovation #2: Malaysia Airlines Launches Mavis, an Agentic AI Customer Service Agent
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While the Sabre-PayPal-MindTrip partnership focuses on the booking side of the traveler journey, Malaysia Airlines is applying agentic AI to a different challenge: customer service. On February 24, the airline launched Mavis, an AI-powered customer service agent built on Ada's Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) platform. Mavis is now live across the airline's web, mobile app, and email channels.
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Here's how it works:
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Mavis handles a wide range of traveler queries: flight status, booking management, check-in assistance, gate information, and loyalty program questions.
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The system provides 24/7 support in English and Malay, with additional languages planned.
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Complex issues are escalated to live agents. Future enhancements include voice, agent-assist tools, and an itinerary builder.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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The keyword in Ada's positioning is, wait for it, agentic, because Mavis is not a traditional chatbot (like almost any airline has introduced over the past two years) that quotes the carrier's FAQ page. Mavis is designed to actually resolve issues autonomously (the definition of agentic) by integrating directly with Malaysia Airlines' operational systems.
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It's supposed to check a real booking, provide a real gate number, and assist with real check-in processes.
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In theory, this marks the long-awaited shift from chatbots that deflect to AI agents that act.
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What makes Mavis particularly noteworthy is its geographic context.
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Much of the airline AI innovation we have tracked on this Airline-Tech radar has come from US and European carriers.
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Malaysia Airlines, as a major Southeast Asian flag carrier, adopting an agentic AI platform signals that this technology is going global.
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Bryan Foong, CEO of Airline Business at Malaysia Aviation Group, described the launch as central to the airline's broader digital transformation strategy.
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The trajectory here matters. We featured Delta's AI Concierge in February 2025 and Qatar Airways' Sama AI enhancement in March 2025. Mavis represents the next wave: carrier-owned AI agents powered by specialised third-party platforms, deployed as core customer service infrastructure.
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Innovation #3: Skyscanner Launches a Dedicated ChatGPT App for Flight Search
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If Innovation #1 shows how the infrastructure for agentic booking is being built, and Innovation #2 shows how airlines are starting to deploy agentic AI for customer service, Innovation #3 signals how an established metasearch player is adapting to the new AI era, and it connects directly to one of our 10 Bets for AI in Travel: that scale will remain the decisive advantage, and that AI will favour incumbents over startups.
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Skyscanner is not a scrappy challenger anymore, trying to break into the market. It is a travel-tech incumbent with over 160 million monthly users, deep inventory relationships, and years of behavioural data, so exactly the kind of player structurally positioned to win in the AI super-cycle, because the prerequisites for high-impact AI are already sitting inside the business.
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On February 27, Skyscanner launched a dedicated ChatGPT app that enables users to search for flights directly within OpenAI's conversational interface, initially in the UK and US markets.
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Here's how it works:
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Users ask ChatGPT natural language questions like \"find the cheapest flight to New York in December\" or \"weekend getaways from London under £200.\"
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ChatGPT routes the query to Skyscanner's app, which draws on data from the platform's 160 million monthly users.
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Results are presented within the conversational interface, and no separate tab or redirect is required.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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Skyscanner's Chief AI Officer Piero Sierra described this as the company evolving \"beyond form-fills toward dynamic, answer-led experiences.\"
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That framing is bigger than it sounds.
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For two decades, metasearch has operated on a simple model: structured form, structured results, click-through to OTA or airline. The ChatGPT app replaces that with conversation. The traveler describes what they want, and the AI returns options. No departure date pickers, no airport code lookups, no multi-tab comparison. It fundamentally breaks the old playbook.
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What makes Skyscanner's approach strategically interesting is its platform diversity.
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This is not a one-off ChatGPT integration.
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Skyscanner was a launch partner for OpenAI's Operator agent in January 2025, integrated with Microsoft Copilot Actions, and now has a dedicated ChatGPT app.
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The company is systematically embedding itself across different AI platforms, deliberately avoiding dependence on any single AI ecosystem, so that wherever a consumer asks about flights, Skyscanner's data is the answer.
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In our September 2025 edition, we featured Wingie Enuygun's MCP server as an early example of metasearch adapting to AI protocols. Skyscanner's multi-platform approach takes this further: not just supporting one protocol, but achieving presence across the entire AI assistant ecosystem.
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The competitive implications are significant. In a world where AI agents mediate flight search, the companies that supply data to those agents gain distribution power.
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That closes our March edition. The agentic travel stack is assembling fast, and we will be watching closely.
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Join us in April, when we track how these early deployments mature and which new players enter the race.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
\n\n
In the past few weeks, three announcements landed that, taken together, suggest agentic AI in travel has crossed a threshold. Agentic is no longer a concept deck at travel-tech conferences. Actual infrastructure, actual deployments, and actual partnerships are coming together, connecting real travelers, real inventory, and real payments.
\n
This matters in the context of where we left things in our January radar, where we reviewed 2025 and concluded that distribution remains the category where the most consequential travel-tech innovation is happening. The three innovations we highlight this month reinforce that conclusion and sharpen it.
\n\n
Key summary:
\n
\n
Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip are building the travel industry’s first end-to-end agentic AI booking pipeline, combining conversational AI trip planning, real-time travel inventory (420+ airlines, 2M hotels), and integrated payment into a single chat-based experience—potentially redefining how travel is discovered, booked, and paid for when it launches in Q2 2026.
\n
Malaysia Airlines launched “Mavis,” an agentic AI customer service agent, built on Ada’s ACX platform, that autonomously handles travel queries and booking tasks across web, app, and email—marking a shift from basic chatbots to AI agents that can act on real airline systems.
\n
Skyscanner launched a ChatGPT app that lets users search for flights through natural language within ChatGPT, signaling a shift from traditional form-based metasearch to conversational travel discovery.
\n
\n\n
Innovation #1: Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip Build the First End-to-End Agentic Booking Pipeline
Our industry is excited about AI, but we still lack a strong vision for what the consumer travel experience should become. We've got demos, experiments, and prototypes. What we don't have is a North Star, a compelling argument for how, in this cycle, the customer experience will evolve. And this matters, because without a vision for the front end, we can't build the right back end and infrastructure.
\n
\n
The core challenge thus far is this: no single player in the travel stack owns the full chain.
\n
\n
You need content (flights, hotels)
\n
You need intelligence (conversational AI that understands traveler intent)
\n
And you need commerce (a way to actually pay).
\n
\n
Until now, these pieces have existed in separate silos. On February 12, Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip announced a partnership that potentially connects all three into what they describe as the travel industry's first end-to-end agentic AI booking system, with a planned launch in Q2 2026. It might be the agentic North Star our industry has been waiting for.
\n
Here's how it's supposed to work:
\n
\n
A traveler describes their trip in natural language through MindTrip's conversational AI interface.
\n
MindTrip queries Sabre's Mosaic APIs, which provide access to more than 420 airlines and two million hotel properties worldwide.
\n
The AI presents curated, personalized options based on traveler preferences, context, and availability.
\n
PayPal's agentic commerce infrastructure handles payment within the conversational flow, completing the entire search-book-pay loop without the traveler ever leaving the conversation.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Two things make this partnership so significant.
\n
First, it aims to solve the integration problem. The travel industry has seen plenty of AI chatbots that can talk about travel, and plenty of booking engines that can process transactions. But connecting real-time GDS inventory, conversational AI, and payment into a single, seamless pipeline is new. Importantly, this is not a demo or a prototype. Sabre is putting its full Mosaic content library behind this, and PayPal is deploying its agentic commerce stack (a system designed specifically for AI-to-system transactions).
\n
Second, this partnership signals a structural shift in who controls the booking funnel. Traditionally, that has been the domain of OTAs, airline direct channels, and metasearch. If a conversational AI agent can handle discovery, comparison, and purchase in a single interaction, the role of traditional booking interfaces changes fundamentally. The real question is whether consumers will trust an AI to select, book, and pay on their behalf (which they currently don’t). If they do, this type of integrated pipeline could become the default architecture for agentic travel commerce.
\n
Sabre's involvement is worth noting. We featured Sabre in our November 2025 edition for its AI-enhanced continuous pricing engine, which optimizes the back end. The PayPal-MindTrip collaboration is about reimagining the front end. Together, they paint a picture of a GDS provider positioning itself as core infrastructure for the AI era.
\n
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Innovation #2: Malaysia Airlines Launches Mavis, an Agentic AI Customer Service Agent
\n
While the Sabre-PayPal-MindTrip partnership focuses on the booking side of the traveler journey, Malaysia Airlines is applying agentic AI to a different challenge: customer service. On February 24, the airline launched Mavis, an AI-powered customer service agent built on Ada's Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) platform. Mavis is now live across the airline's web, mobile app, and email channels.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Mavis handles a wide range of traveler queries: flight status, booking management, check-in assistance, gate information, and loyalty program questions.
\n
The system provides 24/7 support in English and Malay, with additional languages planned.
\n
Complex issues are escalated to live agents. Future enhancements include voice, agent-assist tools, and an itinerary builder.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
The keyword in Ada's positioning is, wait for it, agentic, because Mavis is not a traditional chatbot (like almost any airline has introduced over the past two years) that quotes the carrier's FAQ page. Mavis is designed to actually resolve issues autonomously (the definition of agentic) by integrating directly with Malaysia Airlines' operational systems.
\n
It's supposed to check a real booking, provide a real gate number, and assist with real check-in processes.
\n
In theory, this marks the long-awaited shift from chatbots that deflect to AI agents that act.
\n
What makes Mavis particularly noteworthy is its geographic context.
\n
\n
Much of the airline AI innovation we have tracked on this Airline-Tech radar has come from US and European carriers.
\n
Malaysia Airlines, as a major Southeast Asian flag carrier, adopting an agentic AI platform signals that this technology is going global.
\n
Bryan Foong, CEO of Airline Business at Malaysia Aviation Group, described the launch as central to the airline's broader digital transformation strategy.
\n
\n
The trajectory here matters. We featured Delta's AI Concierge in February 2025 and Qatar Airways' Sama AI enhancement in March 2025. Mavis represents the next wave: carrier-owned AI agents powered by specialised third-party platforms, deployed as core customer service infrastructure.
\n
\n
Innovation #3: Skyscanner Launches a Dedicated ChatGPT App for Flight Search
\n
If Innovation #1 shows how the infrastructure for agentic booking is being built, and Innovation #2 shows how airlines are starting to deploy agentic AI for customer service, Innovation #3 signals how an established metasearch player is adapting to the new AI era, and it connects directly to one of our 10 Bets for AI in Travel: that scale will remain the decisive advantage, and that AI will favour incumbents over startups.
\n
Skyscanner is not a scrappy challenger anymore, trying to break into the market. It is a travel-tech incumbent with over 160 million monthly users, deep inventory relationships, and years of behavioural data, so exactly the kind of player structurally positioned to win in the AI super-cycle, because the prerequisites for high-impact AI are already sitting inside the business.
\n
On February 27, Skyscanner launched a dedicated ChatGPT app that enables users to search for flights directly within OpenAI's conversational interface, initially in the UK and US markets.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Users ask ChatGPT natural language questions like \"find the cheapest flight to New York in December\" or \"weekend getaways from London under £200.\"
\n
ChatGPT routes the query to Skyscanner's app, which draws on data from the platform's 160 million monthly users.
\n
Results are presented within the conversational interface, and no separate tab or redirect is required.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Skyscanner's Chief AI Officer Piero Sierra described this as the company evolving \"beyond form-fills toward dynamic, answer-led experiences.\"
\n
That framing is bigger than it sounds.
\n
For two decades, metasearch has operated on a simple model: structured form, structured results, click-through to OTA or airline. The ChatGPT app replaces that with conversation. The traveler describes what they want, and the AI returns options. No departure date pickers, no airport code lookups, no multi-tab comparison. It fundamentally breaks the old playbook.
\n
What makes Skyscanner's approach strategically interesting is its platform diversity.
\n
\n
This is not a one-off ChatGPT integration.
\n
Skyscanner was a launch partner for OpenAI's Operator agent in January 2025, integrated with Microsoft Copilot Actions, and now has a dedicated ChatGPT app.
\n
The company is systematically embedding itself across different AI platforms, deliberately avoiding dependence on any single AI ecosystem, so that wherever a consumer asks about flights, Skyscanner's data is the answer.
\n
\n
In our September 2025 edition, we featured Wingie Enuygun's MCP server as an early example of metasearch adapting to AI protocols. Skyscanner's multi-platform approach takes this further: not just supporting one protocol, but achieving presence across the entire AI assistant ecosystem.
\n
The competitive implications are significant. In a world where AI agents mediate flight search, the companies that supply data to those agents gain distribution power.
\n
\n
That closes our March edition. The agentic travel stack is assembling fast, and we will be watching closely.
\n
Join us in April, when we track how these early deployments mature and which new players enter the race.
\n
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
\n\n
In the past few weeks, three announcements landed that, taken together, suggest agentic AI in travel has crossed a threshold. Agentic is no longer a concept deck at travel-tech conferences. Actual infrastructure, actual deployments, and actual partnerships are coming together, connecting real travelers, real inventory, and real payments.
\n
This matters in the context of where we left things in our January radar, where we reviewed 2025 and concluded that distribution remains the category where the most consequential travel-tech innovation is happening. The three innovations we highlight this month reinforce that conclusion and sharpen it.
\n\n
Key summary:
\n
\n
Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip are building the travel industry’s first end-to-end agentic AI booking pipeline, combining conversational AI trip planning, real-time travel inventory (420+ airlines, 2M hotels), and integrated payment into a single chat-based experience—potentially redefining how travel is discovered, booked, and paid for when it launches in Q2 2026.
\n
Malaysia Airlines launched “Mavis,” an agentic AI customer service agent, built on Ada’s ACX platform, that autonomously handles travel queries and booking tasks across web, app, and email—marking a shift from basic chatbots to AI agents that can act on real airline systems.
\n
Skyscanner launched a ChatGPT app that lets users search for flights through natural language within ChatGPT, signaling a shift from traditional form-based metasearch to conversational travel discovery.
\n
\n\n
Innovation #1: Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip Build the First End-to-End Agentic Booking Pipeline
Our industry is excited about AI, but we still lack a strong vision for what the consumer travel experience should become. We've got demos, experiments, and prototypes. What we don't have is a North Star, a compelling argument for how, in this cycle, the customer experience will evolve. And this matters, because without a vision for the front end, we can't build the right back end and infrastructure.
\n
\n
The core challenge thus far is this: no single player in the travel stack owns the full chain.
\n
\n
You need content (flights, hotels)
\n
You need intelligence (conversational AI that understands traveler intent)
\n
And you need commerce (a way to actually pay).
\n
\n
Until now, these pieces have existed in separate silos. On February 12, Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip announced a partnership that potentially connects all three into what they describe as the travel industry's first end-to-end agentic AI booking system, with a planned launch in Q2 2026. It might be the agentic North Star our industry has been waiting for.
\n
Here's how it's supposed to work:
\n
\n
A traveler describes their trip in natural language through MindTrip's conversational AI interface.
\n
MindTrip queries Sabre's Mosaic APIs, which provide access to more than 420 airlines and two million hotel properties worldwide.
\n
The AI presents curated, personalized options based on traveler preferences, context, and availability.
\n
PayPal's agentic commerce infrastructure handles payment within the conversational flow, completing the entire search-book-pay loop without the traveler ever leaving the conversation.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Two things make this partnership so significant.
\n
First, it aims to solve the integration problem. The travel industry has seen plenty of AI chatbots that can talk about travel, and plenty of booking engines that can process transactions. But connecting real-time GDS inventory, conversational AI, and payment into a single, seamless pipeline is new. Importantly, this is not a demo or a prototype. Sabre is putting its full Mosaic content library behind this, and PayPal is deploying its agentic commerce stack (a system designed specifically for AI-to-system transactions).
\n
Second, this partnership signals a structural shift in who controls the booking funnel. Traditionally, that has been the domain of OTAs, airline direct channels, and metasearch. If a conversational AI agent can handle discovery, comparison, and purchase in a single interaction, the role of traditional booking interfaces changes fundamentally. The real question is whether consumers will trust an AI to select, book, and pay on their behalf (which they currently don’t). If they do, this type of integrated pipeline could become the default architecture for agentic travel commerce.
\n
Sabre's involvement is worth noting. We featured Sabre in our November 2025 edition for its AI-enhanced continuous pricing engine, which optimizes the back end. The PayPal-MindTrip collaboration is about reimagining the front end. Together, they paint a picture of a GDS provider positioning itself as core infrastructure for the AI era.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Innovation #2: Malaysia Airlines Launches Mavis, an Agentic AI Customer Service Agent
\n
While the Sabre-PayPal-MindTrip partnership focuses on the booking side of the traveler journey, Malaysia Airlines is applying agentic AI to a different challenge: customer service. On February 24, the airline launched Mavis, an AI-powered customer service agent built on Ada's Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) platform. Mavis is now live across the airline's web, mobile app, and email channels.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Mavis handles a wide range of traveler queries: flight status, booking management, check-in assistance, gate information, and loyalty program questions.
\n
The system provides 24/7 support in English and Malay, with additional languages planned.
\n
Complex issues are escalated to live agents. Future enhancements include voice, agent-assist tools, and an itinerary builder.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
The keyword in Ada's positioning is, wait for it, agentic, because Mavis is not a traditional chatbot (like almost any airline has introduced over the past two years) that quotes the carrier's FAQ page. Mavis is designed to actually resolve issues autonomously (the definition of agentic) by integrating directly with Malaysia Airlines' operational systems.
\n
It's supposed to check a real booking, provide a real gate number, and assist with real check-in processes.
\n
In theory, this marks the long-awaited shift from chatbots that deflect to AI agents that act.
\n
What makes Mavis particularly noteworthy is its geographic context.
\n
\n
Much of the airline AI innovation we have tracked on this Airline-Tech radar has come from US and European carriers.
\n
Malaysia Airlines, as a major Southeast Asian flag carrier, adopting an agentic AI platform signals that this technology is going global.
\n
Bryan Foong, CEO of Airline Business at Malaysia Aviation Group, described the launch as central to the airline's broader digital transformation strategy.
\n
\n
The trajectory here matters. We featured Delta's AI Concierge in February 2025 and Qatar Airways' Sama AI enhancement in March 2025. Mavis represents the next wave: carrier-owned AI agents powered by specialised third-party platforms, deployed as core customer service infrastructure.
\n
\n
Innovation #3: Skyscanner Launches a Dedicated ChatGPT App for Flight Search
\n
If Innovation #1 shows how the infrastructure for agentic booking is being built, and Innovation #2 shows how airlines are starting to deploy agentic AI for customer service, Innovation #3 signals how an established metasearch player is adapting to the new AI era, and it connects directly to one of our 10 Bets for AI in Travel: that scale will remain the decisive advantage, and that AI will favour incumbents over startups.
\n
Skyscanner is not a scrappy challenger anymore, trying to break into the market. It is a travel-tech incumbent with over 160 million monthly users, deep inventory relationships, and years of behavioural data, so exactly the kind of player structurally positioned to win in the AI super-cycle, because the prerequisites for high-impact AI are already sitting inside the business.
\n
On February 27, Skyscanner launched a dedicated ChatGPT app that enables users to search for flights directly within OpenAI's conversational interface, initially in the UK and US markets.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Users ask ChatGPT natural language questions like \"find the cheapest flight to New York in December\" or \"weekend getaways from London under £200.\"
\n
ChatGPT routes the query to Skyscanner's app, which draws on data from the platform's 160 million monthly users.
\n
Results are presented within the conversational interface, and no separate tab or redirect is required.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Skyscanner's Chief AI Officer Piero Sierra described this as the company evolving \"beyond form-fills toward dynamic, answer-led experiences.\"
\n
That framing is bigger than it sounds.
\n
For two decades, metasearch has operated on a simple model: structured form, structured results, click-through to OTA or airline. The ChatGPT app replaces that with conversation. The traveler describes what they want, and the AI returns options. No departure date pickers, no airport code lookups, no multi-tab comparison. It fundamentally breaks the old playbook.
\n
What makes Skyscanner's approach strategically interesting is its platform diversity.
\n
\n
This is not a one-off ChatGPT integration.
\n
Skyscanner was a launch partner for OpenAI's Operator agent in January 2025, integrated with Microsoft Copilot Actions, and now has a dedicated ChatGPT app.
\n
The company is systematically embedding itself across different AI platforms, deliberately avoiding dependence on any single AI ecosystem, so that wherever a consumer asks about flights, Skyscanner's data is the answer.
\n
\n
In our September 2025 edition, we featured Wingie Enuygun's MCP server as an early example of metasearch adapting to AI protocols. Skyscanner's multi-platform approach takes this further: not just supporting one protocol, but achieving presence across the entire AI assistant ecosystem.
\n
The competitive implications are significant. In a world where AI agents mediate flight search, the companies that supply data to those agents gain distribution power.
\n
\n
That closes our March edition. The agentic travel stack is assembling fast, and we will be watching closely.
\n
Join us in April, when we track how these early deployments mature and which new players enter the race.
\n
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
\n\n
In the past few weeks, three announcements landed that, taken together, suggest agentic AI in travel has crossed a threshold. Agentic is no longer a concept deck at travel-tech conferences. Actual infrastructure, actual deployments, and actual partnerships are coming together, connecting real travelers, real inventory, and real payments.
\n
This matters in the context of where we left things in our January radar, where we reviewed 2025 and concluded that distribution remains the category where the most consequential travel-tech innovation is happening. The three innovations we highlight this month reinforce that conclusion and sharpen it.
\n\n
Key summary:
\n
\n
Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip are building the travel industry’s first end-to-end agentic AI booking pipeline, combining conversational AI trip planning, real-time travel inventory (420+ airlines, 2M hotels), and integrated payment into a single chat-based experience—potentially redefining how travel is discovered, booked, and paid for when it launches in Q2 2026.
\n
Malaysia Airlines launched “Mavis,” an agentic AI customer service agent, built on Ada’s ACX platform, that autonomously handles travel queries and booking tasks across web, app, and email—marking a shift from basic chatbots to AI agents that can act on real airline systems.
\n
Skyscanner launched a ChatGPT app that lets users search for flights through natural language within ChatGPT, signaling a shift from traditional form-based metasearch to conversational travel discovery.
\n
\n\n
Innovation #1: Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip Build the First End-to-End Agentic Booking Pipeline
Our industry is excited about AI, but we still lack a strong vision for what the consumer travel experience should become. We've got demos, experiments, and prototypes. What we don't have is a North Star, a compelling argument for how, in this cycle, the customer experience will evolve. And this matters, because without a vision for the front end, we can't build the right back end and infrastructure.
\n
\n
The core challenge thus far is this: no single player in the travel stack owns the full chain.
\n
\n
You need content (flights, hotels)
\n
You need intelligence (conversational AI that understands traveler intent)
\n
And you need commerce (a way to actually pay).
\n
\n
Until now, these pieces have existed in separate silos. On February 12, Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip announced a partnership that potentially connects all three into what they describe as the travel industry's first end-to-end agentic AI booking system, with a planned launch in Q2 2026. It might be the agentic North Star our industry has been waiting for.
\n
Here's how it's supposed to work:
\n
\n
A traveler describes their trip in natural language through MindTrip's conversational AI interface.
\n
MindTrip queries Sabre's Mosaic APIs, which provide access to more than 420 airlines and two million hotel properties worldwide.
\n
The AI presents curated, personalized options based on traveler preferences, context, and availability.
\n
PayPal's agentic commerce infrastructure handles payment within the conversational flow, completing the entire search-book-pay loop without the traveler ever leaving the conversation.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Two things make this partnership so significant.
\n
First, it aims to solve the integration problem. The travel industry has seen plenty of AI chatbots that can talk about travel, and plenty of booking engines that can process transactions. But connecting real-time GDS inventory, conversational AI, and payment into a single, seamless pipeline is new. Importantly, this is not a demo or a prototype. Sabre is putting its full Mosaic content library behind this, and PayPal is deploying its agentic commerce stack (a system designed specifically for AI-to-system transactions).
\n
Second, this partnership signals a structural shift in who controls the booking funnel. Traditionally, that has been the domain of OTAs, airline direct channels, and metasearch. If a conversational AI agent can handle discovery, comparison, and purchase in a single interaction, the role of traditional booking interfaces changes fundamentally. The real question is whether consumers will trust an AI to select, book, and pay on their behalf (which they currently don’t). If they do, this type of integrated pipeline could become the default architecture for agentic travel commerce.
\n
Sabre's involvement is worth noting. We featured Sabre in our November 2025 edition for its AI-enhanced continuous pricing engine, which optimizes the back end. The PayPal-MindTrip collaboration is about reimagining the front end. Together, they paint a picture of a GDS provider positioning itself as core infrastructure for the AI era.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Innovation #2: Malaysia Airlines Launches Mavis, an Agentic AI Customer Service Agent
\n
While the Sabre-PayPal-MindTrip partnership focuses on the booking side of the traveler journey, Malaysia Airlines is applying agentic AI to a different challenge: customer service. On February 24, the airline launched Mavis, an AI-powered customer service agent built on Ada's Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) platform. Mavis is now live across the airline's web, mobile app, and email channels.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Mavis handles a wide range of traveler queries: flight status, booking management, check-in assistance, gate information, and loyalty program questions.
\n
The system provides 24/7 support in English and Malay, with additional languages planned.
\n
Complex issues are escalated to live agents. Future enhancements include voice, agent-assist tools, and an itinerary builder.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
The keyword in Ada's positioning is, wait for it, agentic, because Mavis is not a traditional chatbot (like almost any airline has introduced over the past two years) that quotes the carrier's FAQ page. Mavis is designed to actually resolve issues autonomously (the definition of agentic) by integrating directly with Malaysia Airlines' operational systems.
\n
It's supposed to check a real booking, provide a real gate number, and assist with real check-in processes.
\n
In theory, this marks the long-awaited shift from chatbots that deflect to AI agents that act.
\n
What makes Mavis particularly noteworthy is its geographic context.
\n
\n
Much of the airline AI innovation we have tracked on this Airline-Tech radar has come from US and European carriers.
\n
Malaysia Airlines, as a major Southeast Asian flag carrier, adopting an agentic AI platform signals that this technology is going global.
\n
Bryan Foong, CEO of Airline Business at Malaysia Aviation Group, described the launch as central to the airline's broader digital transformation strategy.
\n
\n
The trajectory here matters. We featured Delta's AI Concierge in February 2025 and Qatar Airways' Sama AI enhancement in March 2025. Mavis represents the next wave: carrier-owned AI agents powered by specialised third-party platforms, deployed as core customer service infrastructure.
\n
\n
Innovation #3: Skyscanner Launches a Dedicated ChatGPT App for Flight Search
\n
If Innovation #1 shows how the infrastructure for agentic booking is being built, and Innovation #2 shows how airlines are starting to deploy agentic AI for customer service, Innovation #3 signals how an established metasearch player is adapting to the new AI era, and it connects directly to one of our 10 Bets for AI in Travel: that scale will remain the decisive advantage, and that AI will favour incumbents over startups.
\n
Skyscanner is not a scrappy challenger anymore, trying to break into the market. It is a travel-tech incumbent with over 160 million monthly users, deep inventory relationships, and years of behavioural data, so exactly the kind of player structurally positioned to win in the AI super-cycle, because the prerequisites for high-impact AI are already sitting inside the business.
\n
On February 27, Skyscanner launched a dedicated ChatGPT app that enables users to search for flights directly within OpenAI's conversational interface, initially in the UK and US markets.
\n
Here's how it works:
\n
\n
Users ask ChatGPT natural language questions like \"find the cheapest flight to New York in December\" or \"weekend getaways from London under £200.\"
\n
ChatGPT routes the query to Skyscanner's app, which draws on data from the platform's 160 million monthly users.
\n
Results are presented within the conversational interface, and no separate tab or redirect is required.
\n
\n
Why does this innovation stand out?
\n
Skyscanner's Chief AI Officer Piero Sierra described this as the company evolving \"beyond form-fills toward dynamic, answer-led experiences.\"
\n
That framing is bigger than it sounds.
\n
For two decades, metasearch has operated on a simple model: structured form, structured results, click-through to OTA or airline. The ChatGPT app replaces that with conversation. The traveler describes what they want, and the AI returns options. No departure date pickers, no airport code lookups, no multi-tab comparison. It fundamentally breaks the old playbook.
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What makes Skyscanner's approach strategically interesting is its platform diversity.
\n
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This is not a one-off ChatGPT integration.
\n
Skyscanner was a launch partner for OpenAI's Operator agent in January 2025, integrated with Microsoft Copilot Actions, and now has a dedicated ChatGPT app.
\n
The company is systematically embedding itself across different AI platforms, deliberately avoiding dependence on any single AI ecosystem, so that wherever a consumer asks about flights, Skyscanner's data is the answer.
\n
\n
In our September 2025 edition, we featured Wingie Enuygun's MCP server as an early example of metasearch adapting to AI protocols. Skyscanner's multi-platform approach takes this further: not just supporting one protocol, but achieving presence across the entire AI assistant ecosystem.
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The competitive implications are significant. In a world where AI agents mediate flight search, the companies that supply data to those agents gain distribution power.
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That closes our March edition. The agentic travel stack is assembling fast, and we will be watching closely.
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Join us in April, when we track how these early deployments mature and which new players enter the race.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
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Some months, the innovation signal is scattered. This is not one of those months. Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the OAG Airline Tech Innovation Radar, where the conversation in travel tech is dominated by a single word: agentic.
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In the past few weeks, three announcements landed that, taken together, suggest agentic AI in travel has crossed a threshold. Agentic is no longer a concept deck at travel-tech conferences. Actual infrastructure, actual deployments, and actual partnerships are coming together, connecting real travelers, real inventory, and real payments.
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This matters in the context of where we left things in our January radar, where we reviewed 2025 and concluded that distribution remains the category where the most consequential travel-tech innovation is happening. The three innovations we highlight this month reinforce that conclusion and sharpen it.
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Key summary:
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Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip are building the travel industry’s first end-to-end agentic AI booking pipeline, combining conversational AI trip planning, real-time travel inventory (420+ airlines, 2M hotels), and integrated payment into a single chat-based experience—potentially redefining how travel is discovered, booked, and paid for when it launches in Q2 2026.
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Malaysia Airlines launched “Mavis,” an agentic AI customer service agent, built on Ada’s ACX platform, that autonomously handles travel queries and booking tasks across web, app, and email—marking a shift from basic chatbots to AI agents that can act on real airline systems.
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Skyscanner launched a ChatGPT app that lets users search for flights through natural language within ChatGPT, signaling a shift from traditional form-based metasearch to conversational travel discovery.
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Innovation #1: Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip Build the First End-to-End Agentic Booking Pipeline
Our industry is excited about AI, but we still lack a strong vision for what the consumer travel experience should become. We've got demos, experiments, and prototypes. What we don't have is a North Star, a compelling argument for how, in this cycle, the customer experience will evolve. And this matters, because without a vision for the front end, we can't build the right back end and infrastructure.
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The core challenge thus far is this: no single player in the travel stack owns the full chain.
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You need content (flights, hotels)
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You need intelligence (conversational AI that understands traveler intent)
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And you need commerce (a way to actually pay).
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Until now, these pieces have existed in separate silos. On February 12, Sabre, PayPal, and MindTrip announced a partnership that potentially connects all three into what they describe as the travel industry's first end-to-end agentic AI booking system, with a planned launch in Q2 2026. It might be the agentic North Star our industry has been waiting for.
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Here's how it's supposed to work:
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A traveler describes their trip in natural language through MindTrip's conversational AI interface.
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MindTrip queries Sabre's Mosaic APIs, which provide access to more than 420 airlines and two million hotel properties worldwide.
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The AI presents curated, personalized options based on traveler preferences, context, and availability.
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PayPal's agentic commerce infrastructure handles payment within the conversational flow, completing the entire search-book-pay loop without the traveler ever leaving the conversation.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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Two things make this partnership so significant.
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First, it aims to solve the integration problem. The travel industry has seen plenty of AI chatbots that can talk about travel, and plenty of booking engines that can process transactions. But connecting real-time GDS inventory, conversational AI, and payment into a single, seamless pipeline is new. Importantly, this is not a demo or a prototype. Sabre is putting its full Mosaic content library behind this, and PayPal is deploying its agentic commerce stack (a system designed specifically for AI-to-system transactions).
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Second, this partnership signals a structural shift in who controls the booking funnel. Traditionally, that has been the domain of OTAs, airline direct channels, and metasearch. If a conversational AI agent can handle discovery, comparison, and purchase in a single interaction, the role of traditional booking interfaces changes fundamentally. The real question is whether consumers will trust an AI to select, book, and pay on their behalf (which they currently don’t). If they do, this type of integrated pipeline could become the default architecture for agentic travel commerce.
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Sabre's involvement is worth noting. We featured Sabre in our November 2025 edition for its AI-enhanced continuous pricing engine, which optimizes the back end. The PayPal-MindTrip collaboration is about reimagining the front end. Together, they paint a picture of a GDS provider positioning itself as core infrastructure for the AI era.
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Innovation #2: Malaysia Airlines Launches Mavis, an Agentic AI Customer Service Agent
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While the Sabre-PayPal-MindTrip partnership focuses on the booking side of the traveler journey, Malaysia Airlines is applying agentic AI to a different challenge: customer service. On February 24, the airline launched Mavis, an AI-powered customer service agent built on Ada's Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) platform. Mavis is now live across the airline's web, mobile app, and email channels.
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Here's how it works:
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Mavis handles a wide range of traveler queries: flight status, booking management, check-in assistance, gate information, and loyalty program questions.
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The system provides 24/7 support in English and Malay, with additional languages planned.
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Complex issues are escalated to live agents. Future enhancements include voice, agent-assist tools, and an itinerary builder.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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The keyword in Ada's positioning is, wait for it, agentic, because Mavis is not a traditional chatbot (like almost any airline has introduced over the past two years) that quotes the carrier's FAQ page. Mavis is designed to actually resolve issues autonomously (the definition of agentic) by integrating directly with Malaysia Airlines' operational systems.
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It's supposed to check a real booking, provide a real gate number, and assist with real check-in processes.
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In theory, this marks the long-awaited shift from chatbots that deflect to AI agents that act.
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What makes Mavis particularly noteworthy is its geographic context.
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Much of the airline AI innovation we have tracked on this Airline-Tech radar has come from US and European carriers.
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Malaysia Airlines, as a major Southeast Asian flag carrier, adopting an agentic AI platform signals that this technology is going global.
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Bryan Foong, CEO of Airline Business at Malaysia Aviation Group, described the launch as central to the airline's broader digital transformation strategy.
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The trajectory here matters. We featured Delta's AI Concierge in February 2025 and Qatar Airways' Sama AI enhancement in March 2025. Mavis represents the next wave: carrier-owned AI agents powered by specialised third-party platforms, deployed as core customer service infrastructure.
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Innovation #3: Skyscanner Launches a Dedicated ChatGPT App for Flight Search
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If Innovation #1 shows how the infrastructure for agentic booking is being built, and Innovation #2 shows how airlines are starting to deploy agentic AI for customer service, Innovation #3 signals how an established metasearch player is adapting to the new AI era, and it connects directly to one of our 10 Bets for AI in Travel: that scale will remain the decisive advantage, and that AI will favour incumbents over startups.
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Skyscanner is not a scrappy challenger anymore, trying to break into the market. It is a travel-tech incumbent with over 160 million monthly users, deep inventory relationships, and years of behavioural data, so exactly the kind of player structurally positioned to win in the AI super-cycle, because the prerequisites for high-impact AI are already sitting inside the business.
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On February 27, Skyscanner launched a dedicated ChatGPT app that enables users to search for flights directly within OpenAI's conversational interface, initially in the UK and US markets.
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Here's how it works:
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Users ask ChatGPT natural language questions like \"find the cheapest flight to New York in December\" or \"weekend getaways from London under £200.\"
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ChatGPT routes the query to Skyscanner's app, which draws on data from the platform's 160 million monthly users.
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Results are presented within the conversational interface, and no separate tab or redirect is required.
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Why does this innovation stand out?
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Skyscanner's Chief AI Officer Piero Sierra described this as the company evolving \"beyond form-fills toward dynamic, answer-led experiences.\"
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That framing is bigger than it sounds.
\n
For two decades, metasearch has operated on a simple model: structured form, structured results, click-through to OTA or airline. The ChatGPT app replaces that with conversation. The traveler describes what they want, and the AI returns options. No departure date pickers, no airport code lookups, no multi-tab comparison. It fundamentally breaks the old playbook.
\n
What makes Skyscanner's approach strategically interesting is its platform diversity.
\n
\n
This is not a one-off ChatGPT integration.
\n
Skyscanner was a launch partner for OpenAI's Operator agent in January 2025, integrated with Microsoft Copilot Actions, and now has a dedicated ChatGPT app.
\n
The company is systematically embedding itself across different AI platforms, deliberately avoiding dependence on any single AI ecosystem, so that wherever a consumer asks about flights, Skyscanner's data is the answer.
\n
\n
In our September 2025 edition, we featured Wingie Enuygun's MCP server as an early example of metasearch adapting to AI protocols. Skyscanner's multi-platform approach takes this further: not just supporting one protocol, but achieving presence across the entire AI assistant ecosystem.
\n
The competitive implications are significant. In a world where AI agents mediate flight search, the companies that supply data to those agents gain distribution power.
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That closes our March edition. The agentic travel stack is assembling fast, and we will be watching closely.
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Join us in April, when we track how these early deployments mature and which new players enter the race.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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The panel discussed:
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How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
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Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
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What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
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Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
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A l00k at global capacity growth trends
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Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
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Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
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Which markets are driving growth?
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In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
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International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
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North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
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A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
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Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
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how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
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Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
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Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
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The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
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Watch the full webinar:
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There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
\n
Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
\n
What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
A l00k at global capacity growth trends
\n
Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
\n
\n
\n
Which markets are driving growth?
\n
\n
In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
\n
International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
\n
North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
\n
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A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
\n
Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
\n
\n
how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
\n
Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
\n
\n
Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
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There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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The panel discussed:
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How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
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Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
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What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
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Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
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A l00k at global capacity growth trends
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Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
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Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
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Which markets are driving growth?
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In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
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International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
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North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
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A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
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Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
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how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
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Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
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Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
\n
Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
\n
What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
A l00k at global capacity growth trends
\n
Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
\n
\n
\n
Which markets are driving growth?
\n
\n
In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
\n
International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
\n
North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
\n
\n
\n
A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
\n
Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
\n
\n
how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
\n
Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
\n
\n
Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
\n
Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
\n
What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
A l00k at global capacity growth trends
\n
Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
\n
\n
\n
Which markets are driving growth?
\n
\n
In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
\n
International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
\n
North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
\n
\n
\n
A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
\n
Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
\n
\n
how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
\n
Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
\n
\n
Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
\n
Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
\n
What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
A l00k at global capacity growth trends
\n
Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
\n
\n
\n
Which markets are driving growth?
\n
\n
In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
\n
International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
\n
North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
\n
\n
\n
A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
\n
Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
\n
\n
how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
\n
Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
\n
\n
Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
How carriers are maintaining demand despite economic and geopolitical volatility
\n
Where networks are expanding and which routes are driving yield growth
\n
What profitability will look like for airlines in 2026 and beyond
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
A l00k at global capacity growth trends
\n
Before diving into the topic of this week's webinar, the panel reviewed Q1 global capacity growth data:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for Q1 remains 3.7% ahead of 2025, however when we stretch that out to H1 2026, this falls to 2.5%.
\n
\n
\n
Which markets are driving growth?
\n
\n
In the first half of 2026, global domestic capacity is almost flat, just 0.8% above 2025, with sluggish demand in Asia and Europe offset by stronger growth in other regions, including North America.
\n
International capacity is forecast to rise 5% year on year in H1 2026, led by strongest growth in the Southwest Pacific and Africa, with Asia, Europe and the Middle East broadly in line with the global trend.
\n
North America international capacity is lagging, with growth of just 1.1% expected at this point.
\n
\n
\n
A closer look at passenger demand in the U.S.
\n
Next we take a closer look at the U.S., with Courtney giving an overview of economic trends post-COVID, highlighting the initial downturn, recovery, and current stabilization. How are human behaviors as a result of the economic whiplash influencing current market dynamics?
\n
\n
how have transborder traffic trends shifted?
\n
Despite shifts in global travel trends, the Canada remains an attractive outlier due to its picturesque landscapes and year-round activities:
\n
\n
Why Your Airfare Isn’t The Real Cost Anymore
\n
The panel explored how other travel-related costs, such as hotel accommodations, Disney tickets, and ski lift tickets, have increased, impacting travel decisions more than airfare alone:
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Courtney Miller (Founder and Managing Director, Visual Approach Analytics) and Ignacio Ottati (Manager, Air Service Development, Calgary Airport Authority to discuss how the North American aviation market is performing amid ongoing disruption.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
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The panel discussed:
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The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
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Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
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International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
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Regional leaders emerge:\n
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Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
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sustained tourism growth in northern europe
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Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
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Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
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\n
\n
\n
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sustained tourism growth in northern europe
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Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
sustained tourism growth in northern europe
\n
\n
Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
sustained tourism growth in northern europe
\n
\n
Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
sustained tourism growth in northern europe
\n
\n
Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
sustained tourism growth in northern europe
\n
\n
Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
The role regional airports play in their communities
\n
How the pandemic changed regional connectivity in Europe
\n
The challenges for regional airlines in today's environment
\n
\n
Below are just some highlights, with the full recording ready to view at the bottom of the page.
\n\n
EuropeaN AIRLINE MARKET SHIFT
\n
There have been significant changes in the European airline industry over the past 15 years:
\n
\n
Fewer airlines: a 25% decrease since 2010
\n
Market concentration: the top 20 carriers now hold 89% of total capacity
\n
Increased dominance: larger players increasingly lead the market
\n
\n
\n
Europe's Domestic Aviation Decline Amid Global Growth
\n
\n
International growth doubles domestic: Global international capacity for this quarter up 5.7% vs. domestic at 2.5%
\n
Europe's domestic market contracts: -0.5% decline in Q1 2026, the only region showing negative domestic growth
\n
Regional leaders emerge:\n
\n
Domestic: Africa leads at 9.6% growth
\n
International: Middle East (8.4%) and SW Pacific (8.7%) show strongest growth
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
sustained tourism growth in northern europe
\n
\n
Rovaniemi has experienced over 20% annual growth for three consecutive years
\n
Similar growth trends have been observed in Tromsø, Norway
\n
Both Cities are becoming increasingly popular travel destinations in Northern Europe
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Petri Vuori (Senior Vice President, Sales and Route Development, Finavia) to discuss the role of regional airports, routes and airlines in shaping European connectivity.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
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\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
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What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
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This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
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WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
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Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
\n
\n
What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
\n
This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
\n
\n
WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
\n
\n
Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
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For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
\n
\n
What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
\n
This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
\n
\n
WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
\n
\n
Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
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What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
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In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
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This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
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Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
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In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
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WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
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Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
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Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
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Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
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\n
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Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
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The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
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International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
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\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
\n
\n
What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
\n
This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
\n
\n
WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
\n
\n
Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
\n
\n
What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
\n
This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
\n
\n
WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
\n
\n
Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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\n\n
The panel discussed:
\n
\n
Global airline capacity trends and where growth is taking place right now
\n
New developments to come in 2026 in the airline community
\n
The airlines to watch in the year ahead
\n
\n\n
A look at growth trends
\n
First, the panel began by taking a look at global growth trends:
\n
\n
Capacity growth for the year to date remains steady at 3.1% ahead of last year.
\n
Q1 2026 is currently 3.6% ahead of Q1 2025.
\n
\n
\n
Which aviation markets led growth in 2025?
\n
\n
Central Asia and North Africa led growth in 2025, with some markets still to shake off the impact from the pandemic:
\n
\n
\n
Growth appears steady across most markets this winter
\n
\n
Domestic aviation markets in Asia, Latin America and Australia are seeing strongest growth of almost 4% compared to last winter.
\n
The Middle East is also strong, but impacted by missing data in Iran - if we strip out this effect, domestic growth is almost 10% ahead.
\n
International growth is strongest in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Pacific.
\n
\n
\n
Some turbulence emerging in North-East Asia
\n
\n
On 14 November, China issued a travel advisory, urging its citizens not to travel to Japan following a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This was followed by a further warning to Chinese citizens from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, raising security concerns about travel in Japan.
\n
Capacity between the two countries has seen a significant fall in the last four weeks for the rest of the winter season (December –the end of March), with seats down by 18% compared to the position before the announcements. Before this, 82% of capacity was operated by Chinese carriers, and they have reduced capacity by 19% for the rest of the season. This may reduce further in the coming weeks.
\n
\n
\n
What does the Low-cost Carrier (LCC) landscape look like in Europe?
\n
\n
In 5 of the Top 10 LCC markets in Europe, Ryanair has the largest share.
\n
This is highest in Italy, where they operate 57% of capacity.
\n
Only Norway has a more dominant carrier, Norwegian, who operate 85% of capacity.
\n
In Poland, Ryanair also operate over 50% of capacity.
\n
\n
\n
WHAT DOES THE LCC LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN the US?
\n
\n
Meanwhile, in the US, LCC access to major hubs remains limited. The panel explores the data and discusses the reasons why the US's biggest airports are still difficult markets for LCCs to operate in:
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Watch the full webinar:
\n
There's so much more to discover in the full panel discussion - for more insights, watch below:
For this month's aviation industry webinar, Deirdre Fulton and John Grant were joined by Sanja Ples (CEO, ch-aviation) and Jon Howey (Deputy COO & Head of Aviation Risk, CALC) to discuss the year in aviation and explore the trends that may shape the industry in 2026.
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During the busiest months, the demand on airline catering is significant, placing immense pressure on suppliers to deliver exceptional service. To meet this demand, companies like gategroup - the leading airline catering and retail-on-board supplier - engage in a daily preparation process that encompasses a multitude of complex operations.
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John Grant (Chief Analyst at OAG) speaks to Dave Ingram, Senior Project Manager at gategroup to discuss how they manage an intricate operation and the challenges they often face. Tune in now...
Or search for OAG On Air on your preferred podcast provider! 🎧
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During the busiest months, the demand on airline catering is significant, placing immense pressure on suppliers to deliver exceptional service. To meet this demand, companies like gategroup - the leading airline catering and retail-on-board supplier - engage in a daily preparation process that encompasses a multitude of complex operations.
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John Grant (Chief Analyst at OAG) speaks to Dave Ingram, Senior Project Manager at gategroup to discuss how they manage an intricate operation and the challenges they often face. Tune in now...
Or search for OAG On Air on your preferred podcast provider! 🎧
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Airline catering plays a pivotal role in the aviation supply chain, ensuring that passengers are provided with in-flight meals and that airports worldwide are well-stocked with catering supplies. It is an indispensable aspect of the aviation industry that requires meticulous resource management.
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During the busiest months, the demand on airline catering is significant, placing immense pressure on suppliers to deliver exceptional service. To meet this demand, companies like gategroup - the leading airline catering and retail-on-board supplier - engage in a daily preparation process that encompasses a multitude of complex operations.
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John Grant (Chief Analyst at OAG) speaks to Dave Ingram, Senior Project Manager at gategroup to discuss how they manage an intricate operation and the challenges they often face. Tune in now...
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In this podcast, John Grant talks to Julian Roberts, President and CEO at Pascan Aviation - an independent regional carrier based in Quebec, Canada.
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The real heart of aviation is the small regional carriers, like Pascan Aviation, that provide connectivity to small cities and make sure that commercial business can continue in those communities.
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Or search for OAG On Air on your preferred podcast provider! 🎧
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With the global recovery well underway it's noticeable how many destinations are adjusting their strategies and products to be more environmentally friendly and, of course, sustainable.
In this episode, John Grant talks to Brent Hill, Chief Executive Officer at Tourism Fiji, about how the destination is changing its marketing, product offering and most importantly how it's recovering from a pandemic. For any island economy, air services are essential, and Fiji is one of the few destinations to have both a long-haul local airline and a mix of inbound international services.
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With the global recovery well underway it's noticeable how many destinations are adjusting their strategies and products to be more environmentally friendly and, of course, sustainable.
In this episode, John Grant talks to Brent Hill, Chief Executive Officer at Tourism Fiji, about how the destination is changing its marketing, product offering and most importantly how it's recovering from a pandemic. For any island economy, air services are essential, and Fiji is one of the few destinations to have both a long-haul local airline and a mix of inbound international services.
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In this episode, John Grant talks to Brent Hill, Chief Executive Officer at Tourism Fiji, about how the destination is changing its marketing, product offering and most importantly how it's recovering from a pandemic. For any island economy, air services are essential, and Fiji is one of the few destinations to have both a long-haul local airline and a mix of inbound international services.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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With so many airlines and airports anticipating this report, it's no wonder the Punctuality League is being recognised as the world's definitive measurement of on-time performance. There's plenty of hot topics and discussions set to arise from these results, so make sure you're part of the action and download your very own copy using the form at the top of this page.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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With so many airlines and airports anticipating this report, it's no wonder the Punctuality League is being recognised as the world's definitive measurement of on-time performance. There's plenty of hot topics and discussions set to arise from these results, so make sure you're part of the action and download your very own copy using the form at the top of this page.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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With so many airlines and airports anticipating this report, it's no wonder the Punctuality League is being recognised as the world's definitive measurement of on-time performance. There's plenty of hot topics and discussions set to arise from these results, so make sure you're part of the action and download your very own copy using the form at the top of this page.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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With so many airlines and airports anticipating this report, it's no wonder the Punctuality League is being recognised as the world's definitive measurement of on-time performance. There's plenty of hot topics and discussions set to arise from these results, so make sure you're part of the action and download your very own copy using the form at the top of this page.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Another year, another look at on-time performance for the world's airlines and airports and 2019's edition makes for some very interesting analysis, especially as sitting on top of this year's league is a brand new winner in airline punctuality.
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Dethroning 3-time winner airBaltic was no easy task, but in 2018, Copa Airlines topped the ranking as the most punctual airline in the world with OTP of 89.79%, becoming the first-ever Latin American winner of the League.
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In fact, it's been a brilliant year for South America as LATAM Airlines Group came first in our Mega Airlines category with on-time performance of 85.60%, climbing a remarkable seven places and knocking Japan Airlines off top-spot. The success follows in our Medium Airports category as Panama City climbs from 3rd to 1st.
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We also welcome five new entrants in the Small Airports category, with Minsk going on to claim first place, but it is Japan which continues its excellent standards by winning the Large Airport and Mega Airport categories with Osaka and Tokyo Haneda respectively holding onto the top spots.
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With so many airlines and airports anticipating this report, it's no wonder the Punctuality League is being recognised as the world's definitive measurement of on-time performance. There's plenty of hot topics and discussions set to arise from these results, so make sure you're part of the action and download your very own copy using the form at the top of this page.
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