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Top 10 Airlines in the US by departing seats (one way) in March 2024.

• This month, American Airlines remains the largest carrier in the US by seat volume, with 1.3m more seats than Southwest which remain in second place.
• Allegiant Air reduced capacity by 310,000 seats this month, 16% fewer seats in real terms, despite this month being the start of the IATA Summer Season.       
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Top 10 Busiest Airline Routes in the US by departing seats in March 2024.

• Atlanta - Orlando was the busiest US flight route this month, despite a 2% reduction in capacity in real terms.
• Daily capacity reduced by 5% on the Denver - Phoenix route, moving it to the second busiest route.
• The daily adjusted capacity on the Los Angeles - San Francisco route increased by 13%, 12% on Atlanta- NY La Guardia and 11% on the NY La Guardia - Chicago route.              

Top 10 Airports in the US by departing seats (one-way) this month.

• There are 659 airports with scheduled services operating this month.  The Top 10 airports continue to account for 34% of capacity.
• Atlanta remains the biggest airport in capacity terms, by 1.1m seats.
• In real terms capacity decreased in all of the top 10 airports, except Charlotte where it increased by 2%.
  
    

Top 10 Airlines by seats added month-on-month.

• Growth this month came largely from European carriers who switched into their summer schedule, with Virgin Atlantic increasing capacity by 40,700 seats - a 23% increase in seats. Nevertheless, these airlines share of total capacity remains very small.
• German-based carrier, Condor Flugdienst, increased capacity by over 200%, 24,000 more seats.