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China’s US$20 Billion Hold on Asian Aviation - Continued Lockdowns Now Stalling Any Recovery

The great aviation recovery is underway, or more precisely - airline capacity ...

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Is China’s Zero-Covid Strategy Sustainable? Airline Capacity Falls by 800,000 Seats

More Outbreaks and Travel Restrictions Through a long and patient period of ...

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Ripples and surges in China as the latest wave hits: how will Asia respond?

Outbreaks and Lockdowns Persist The news that China shut down much of its ...

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Why Are Airlines Offering Flights to Nowhere?

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

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Network Planners Take A Well-Deserved Break

It has been a very quiet week for global flight capacity with one of the ...

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China Springs Back and American Airlines are Back at Number One

It was only ever likely to be for a week, but China has snatched back the title ...

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Chinese Domestic Capacity Collapses with Record Reductions

Wow, where did that come from! A near 27% reduction in capacity and the loss of ...

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Will China's Annual Mass Migration Happen in 2021

Often referred to as the world’s largest mass migration, Chunyun, or the Spring ...

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Beijing Bounces Back to Growth

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

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Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Eight

Airlines Adjusting Schedules Every Day | South Korea Sees 30% Capacity ...

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COVID19 Increases US Domestic Capacity

One of the beautiful things about aeroplanes is that they can broadly fly ...

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Chinese Capacity Recovers…Global Capacity Remains Stable

The welcomed addition of another 2.9 million scheduled seats (18,200 flights) ...

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Coronavirus Week Six - Capacity Recovers Slightly...Or Does It?

If you believe the data, then this week sees the first signs of a recovery in ...

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Coronavirus Continues Damaging China Capacity

Five weeks ago, China was the third largest international aviation market in ...

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Coronavirus Kills International Capacity

Last week we reported on probably the most dramatic reduction in capacity we ...

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Coronavirus: Resilience of air travel means recovery will come in time

In the middle of a crisis it’s often hard to see beyond it, and to imagine life ...

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Are Flight Cancellations Running Ahead Of Coronovirus Spread?

Between February 2nd and February 3rd 2020, the daily World Health Organization ...

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Coronavirus Strikes Chinese Aviation

One in Four Seats Cancelled The last week has seen unprecedented levels of ...

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Coronavirus - Tracking Down the Bug

It’s the first quarter of the new decade and we have the first medical alert as ...

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HNA Group – Point To Point

With 13 airlines making up the group, and a focus on point-to-point operations ...

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China Eastern - Domestic Dominance

With more Chinese destinations than any other Chinese airline group, the Group ...

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Southern Strength – Aircraft Orderbook Reflects China Southern Ambitions

International capacity at China Southern Group airlines is growing at 12%, and ...

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Air China - China's Most International Airline Group

With 18% of all capacity to and from points beyond China’s border, the Air ...

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Inside China's Airline Families – Eyeing Up The Neighbours

OAG’s latest blog series takes a closer look at each of the China’s airline ...