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U.S Airlines Recovery – the highs & lows of meeting demand

Does Network Stability Equal Network Profitability? Covid-19 has stretched the ...

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Thanksgiving Gifts as Airline Recovery Continues

US Airlines have a major role to play at Thanksgiving transporting literally ...

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Delta’s Bigger Planes: Chasing Consumer Taste for More Space

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

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U.S. Holiday Travel Outlook: Vaccine Passports and Limited Capacity

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

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Christmas Comes Early for Airline CEOs

Finally, good news for every scheduled airline CEO in Europe and the United ...

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Asian Dominance Slips from World's Busiest International Routes

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

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Is there a Link Between Vaccination Rates and Opening Up International Air Travel?

For a while I imagine many of us assumed this would be so: The more people were ...

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Airlines Expectations for any Recovery in 2021 are Fading

Modest Weekly Growth Hides Longer-Term Trends The ups and downs of aviation’s ...

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US Airlines Steal An Advantage Over Competitors

Financial Impact of the One-Way Road It’s fair to say that the airline industry ...

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Aviation’s Recovery Stutters Once Again

Capacity Remains Trapped As Major Markets Remain Closed.

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Fresh Mint from JetBlue: Expect Disruption to Transatlantic Flying

21 year old JetBlue starts its much heralded service between New York and ...

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North American Fleet Orders - Marginal Gains For Long Term Revenues

The aviation recovery is underway, well it is in some parts of the world and ...

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Airlines Break Through 80 Million Seats A Week

Olympics 2021 Lead To A Sprint In Japanese Airline Capacity This is ...

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Global Airline Capacity Fails To Break The 80 Million Mark

Capacity settles at 79.8 million, a slight increase on last week of 1.5% with ...

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An Encouraging Week for Many Airlines - Then A Bubble Burst and an Outbreak Occurs

This week’s data highlights once again just how frustrating and different every ...

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Airlines Add Back Another 3.1 Million Seats This Week

The challenges of the airline industry are captured in this week’s data; ...

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Airline Capacity Continues to Grow In the Short Term

But 21.4 Million More Seats Removed From June to September Inventory Rather ...

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Capacity Grows But Airlines Fail Over The Weekend

Industry Breaks Through 70 million Capacity Per Week The airline industry has ...

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Transatlantic Travel Trauma

US$ 5.4 Billion Of Revenue Risk For Major Airlines In a normal year, this is ...

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Airline Capacity Steadies Before Another Likely Tumble

Since last week saw some of the fastest capacity growth since January 2020, we ...

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Airline Capacity Bounces Back In Europe & The United States Reclaims First Position

Following last week’s lack of activity, airlines have been adding capacity back ...

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Is the US Aviation Market In Recovery? Airlines Experiment with New Network Strategies

Domestic airline capacity, and TSA volumes, a proxy for flight demand have ...

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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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Transatlantic Turmoil Potential US$10 Billion Risk Looming

At this time of year many scheduled airlines are normally smiling. The Summer ...

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US Majors Heading for a Thanksgiving Roasting

Throughout 2020 scheduled airlines have been looking for glimmers of hope in a ...

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Transatlantic Traumas

The $40 Billion Market That Remains Bugged For many airlines the Europe to ...

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The Scale of the Schengen - US Travel Ban

  11% OF US INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AFFECTED BY SCHENGEN BAN On Wednesday 11th ...

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U.S. Unserved Routes: Is there room for Breeze Airways on the runway?

  It’s unusual for the announcement of a new airline to be greeted with as much ...

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Climate Change and the US addiction to flying: Is rail revival the answer?

  As environmental concerns gather momentum, the focus on air travel’s ...

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Thanksgiving Travel 2019: How to avoid the crowds

How to avoid the crowds and plan for potential interruptions This year’s ...

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Spirit Airlines – Playing Around

In July 2019, Spirit Airlines issued an Investor Update which explained how ...

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Going South: Norwegian's flight plans

From its origins as a Scandinavian low-cost carrier more than 10 years ago, ...

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London Heathrow retains title as world’s most connected airport

Once again, London’s Heathrow Airport has come out ahead of its rivals for the ...

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Can A Westjet/Delta Tie-Up Attract Sixth Freedom Traffic?

In June, Westjet and Delta came one step closer to creating a joint venture ...

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Roots & Resilience – How Chinese Communities Are Supporting U.S. Services to China

Half of all Chinese who live in the US reside in either California or New York, ...

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Billion Dollar Route - Jewels in The Network

Airline networks, a mix of destinations, some routes operating with high daily ...

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B737 Max – Maximum Aviation Xpense

The grounding of the B737Max continues and the commercial damage for airline ...

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US Majors – Summer Matters

Last December, United announced its biggest ever international network ...

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Painting the Town Red - How Air Transat Fits with Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge

Having looked like a certainty, and then not, by the end of June the ...

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The Pursuit of Punctuality

The availability of more data than ever before has given the aviation industry ...

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Forget robots (for now): Travelers want simplicity and humans at the airport

The best ways to delight today’s travelers and grow revenue may surprise you. ...

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SWOOP – Making Waves at Airports

The biggest airports often get the most attention but, as our recent North ...

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Florida’s Fastest Growing

Seven airports in Florida are amongst the fastest growing in North America.  ...

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Memorable Data for a Memorial Day Weekend

The last weekend in May brings a major public holiday in the United States with ...

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Joining Up the Americas – The Rewards of Joint Ventures

Chile’s anti-trust approval of the American Airlines-LATAM Group joint venture ...

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Winter's North Atlantic Growth Spurt – Cheap Fares For All!

It seems that even the most mature markets are capable of a growth spurt. The ...

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Amazon, Facebook and the Future of Travel Tech Booking

In a March blog post, we discussed the rise of artificial intelligence and ...

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Fast Growing Airports Linked To Southwest Success

Many of the fastest growing airports in the United States can link their ...

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The Race for Deliveries – China Trumps United States

Airbus edged out Boeing in the annual aircraft order competition for 2017, but ...

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OAG Megahubs Index 2017 is here!

This year, in the 2017 edition of the Megahubs series, we turn our attention to ...

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B757s Going Back to the Core

The recent announcement from United Airlines that they would be ceasing ...

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United States and Cuba: Riding the Wave of Capacity Growth

One of the last major Barack Obama initiatives was the formalisation of ...

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Goldilocks and on-time performance

As airports and airspace become more crowded, the way operations are managed ...

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Who Is The Biggest of Them All...?

It’s a discussion that has raged since the first commercial air services. Who ...

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How Millennials and the Sharing Economy are Driving a new Travel Tech Landscape in the U.S.

New players are becoming a driving force in the travel tech industry, as ...

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The American Way – Long-distance relationships

Relationships which cross continents are rarely easy. This is as true for ...

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The American Way – Cheap Dates

If you can’t beat them, join them. Or so the motto goes. Having spent years ...

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The American Way – Sweet Nothings

Having gone through a period of intense consolidation, the US now has three ...

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The American Way – Labours of love

The three largest US airlines are all the result of mergers in recent years. ...

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The American Way – What seven year itch?

It’s now seven years since Delta Air Lines and Northwest completed their ...

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Airport and airline winners of OAG's Punctuality League 2016 announced

Having just finished our New Year festivities here at OAG HQ, we’re in the mood ...

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Transatlantic Attraction - The Story Continues

It’s a frequent story seeing double-digit frequency growth over a few years in ...

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The world's most connected airports of 2016

Which airports are the most connected in the world? Find out in the 2016 ...

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US Big Three Results Drive Punctuality Improvements

It’s been a good year for the Big Three. Strong profits, new aircraft ...

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Investing Wisely with Aviation Data

Aviation is a risky business from many perspectives; the returns for airlines ...

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The Developing Transatlantic Low-Cost Battle

Emergent markets, new airlines, burgeoning low cost sector, new alliances, ...

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Busiest day of the year meltdown: The Atlanta Blues

Traditionally on the busiest week of the year, Delta Air Lines had been struck ...

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United States – Mexico: Opening the Skies Further…

It may prove to be one of the last changes to US aviation policy under the ...

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Phoenix to Orlando – whatever next in the US one-stop shop?

Geography can be challenging, especially when you are located on the East or ...

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Underserved Routes from A to B, via C

We all like to travel as directly as possible from one destination to the next ...

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2015 Trends - 18 Months On

In December 2014, OAG published its 2015 Trends report. At the time the world ...

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Some habits need to be broken

In some parts of the world it’s ‘cool to queue’. But when you are waiting in a ...

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Airbnb and Low-Cost Airlines - Creating New Trends?

Airbnb’s latest top destinations are located at airports where low-cost ...

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Aruban Air Service Development – No Caribbean Holiday

With approval granted for numerous new air services to Havana, airports and ...

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Alaska Airlines consolidates West Coast position

The announcement that Alaska Airlines is acquiring Virgin America surprised ...

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A ‘blank canvas’ look at US-Tokyo flights

US regulators have indicated their intention to use the availability of slots ...

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Seattle’s 1,000km advantage

With the arrival of the new and more efficient breed of long range aircraft, ...

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All-new Global Monthly OTP Reports for Airlines and Airports

Find out which airlines and airports got their on-time performance off to a ...

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The first (and hopefully the worst and last) of 2016’s Winter Storms

As airports across the East Coast of the United States clear up after the ...

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Well done to our Punctuality League winners!

Once again we’ve had a busy first week back in the office at OAG HQ; with no ...

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Christmas Wishes from OAG

At OAG we track every scheduled flight around the planet on a daily basis. With ...

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Which markets are driving China’s international capacity growth?

In contrast to news reports of weakness in the Chinese economy, there is no ...

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The Truth About Padding - Lifting the Lid on Airline OTP

How OTP is measured has recently come into question with the suggestion that ...

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Thanksgiving Getaways from OAG

In preparation for Thanksgiving this year, OAG uses data from Schedules ...

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Phoenix, the Megahub for both legacy and long-haul

To be the base airport for a major airline is a dream and to be a hub facility ...

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Flying Through the Years of the Rugby World Cup

With the Rugby World Cup kicking off tonight, OAG looks back on the prestigious ...

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Alaska Airlines Strengthens Relationship With American

Alaska Airlines Strengthens Relationship with American With the news last week ...

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Analysing Delta Air Lines' role at Dallas

Analysing Delta Air Lines' role at Dallas Southwest has given Delta Air Lines a ...

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Delivering Passengers: Gulf Carriers Importance for US Airlines

What The Gulf Carriers Mean for US Airline Networks The recent complaint from ...

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The End of an Era - Airbus & Boeing Aircrafts

Airbus called a halt to production of its four-engine wide-body A340 towards ...

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The Fight For Global Markets

  In March 2015, US carriers presented a case for unfair competition from some ...

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1501 miles and counting

It's amazing how much difference one mile can make in aviation! Today scheduled ...

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Good enough?

At the start of 2015 four out of five flights leaving from and arriving at the ...

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OAG at the movies

It's award season, so in honor of this year's Oscars, OAG's rolling out the red ...

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Who are the best-performing airlines and airports?

    Congratulations to our Punctuality League winners! It’s been a busy week ...

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Top 5 aviation trends to look out for in 2015

As 2014 draws to a close we look into the new year and use our extensive ...

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'Tis the season...to travel

OAG welcomes Christmas with this festive infographic showing the top 10 ...