SOUTH EAST ASIA AVIATION MARKET DATA

LATEST SE ASIA FLIGHT DATA INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS

DISCOVER THE BUSIEST AIRPORTS, AIRLINES AND FLIGHT ROUTES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA THIS MONTH | SEPTEMBER 2024

Find below flight data and analysis focused on the South East Asia aviation market, with data powered by OAG's Schedules Analyser. The data is updated monthly. Seats are calculated as departing seats (one-way).

TOTAL AIRLINE CAPACITY (DOMESTIC + INTERNATIONAL) IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | SEPTEMBER 2024

KEY POINTS

  • Total capacity across SE Asia this month is 37m seats, 6.1% higher than September 2023, but still 11.8% behind Sept 2019.
  • International capacity grew at a faster rate than domestic capacity vs last year, by 11.7% vs 2.3% respectively.
  • Neither have recovered fully compared with September 2019

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TOTAL SEATS BY COUNTRY | SEPTEMBER 2024

KEY POINTS

  • Indonesia remains the largest SE Asia market with 11.6m seats, representing 31% of the market.
  • Despite increases versus September 23, capacity in Thailand and Malaysia remains 21% and 14% lower respectively than in September 2019.
  • Viet Nam's capacity has reduced by 13% versus last month and down 5% versus last year.
  • Overall capacity has reduced by 6% versus last month.
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TOP 10 FLIGHT ROUTES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | SEPTEMBER 2024

TOP 10 INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT ROUTES in South East Asia

  • Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Singapore (SIN) remains the busiest route with 470,900 seats this month, 141,300 more seats than the next busiest route Bangkok (BKK) to Singapore (SIN).
  • Singapore continues to be a key International hub in SE Asia with 6 of the Top 10 international routes in the region starting or ending there.
  • 4 of the top 5 international routes remain between Singapore and other major regional hub airports - Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Bangkok (BKK), Jakarta (CGK) and Denpasar (DPS).
  • Hong Kong - Manila (HKG-MNL) moved into 10th busiest international route, displacing Bangkok - Incheon (BKK-ICN) to 12 position.

TOP 10 DOMESTIC FLIGHT ROUTES in South East Asia

  • The top domestic route in SE Asia remains Hanoi (HAN) to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) with 821,900 seats, a reduction in daily capacity of 5% compared to August 24.
  • Three of the Top 10 domestic routes in the region are in Vietnam, and five in Indonesia, which has the largest population in the region. 
  • Capacity on all three  Vietnamese routes in the Top 10 reduced, declining by 26% on Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City (DAD-HAN) and 24% on Da Nang to Hanoi (DAD-HAN).
  • Capacity increased by 12% and 14% on Jakarta (CGK) to Makassar (UPG) and Denpasar-Bali (DPS) respectively.
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TOP 10 BUSIEST AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | SEPTEBER 2024

TOP 10 AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA BY TOTAL SEATS

  • Singapore is the largest airport in the region again this month, with 3.4m seats.
  • Daily capacity at Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City reduced most, declining by 9.8% and 6.6% respectively vs the previous month.
  • Makassar was the only airport in the Top 10 to increase capacity, with daily capacity increasing by 4.5%.
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TOP 10 FASTEST CHANGING AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA BY INTERNATIONAL SEATS

  • The greatest changes in international capacity in September 24 were amongst the larger airports where capacity was reduced.  174,000 seats were taken out of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International and 127,000 from Singapore Changi airport.
  • Capacity reduced by 87,000 seats in Kuala Lumpur International and 63,000 at Bangkok Don Mueng International Airport vs last month.
  • Manila and Phuket also reduced international capacity by over 50,000 seats.

TOP 10 BUSIEST AIRLINES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | SEPTEMBER 2024

TOP 10 SOUTH EAST ASIAN AIRLINES BY SEATS

Top 10 Airlines in South East Asia by Top 10 Airlines by seats (departing, one-way) and by seats added month-on-month.

  • Lion Air remains the region's largest carrier, accounting for 9% of the region's capacity with 3.16m seats in September 24.
  • Air Asia is second largest, with 7% regional share of capacity. However Air Asia's capacity remains 20% below September 2019. 
  • The carrier taking out the most capacity this month is Vietnam Airlines, reducing capacity by 461,300 seats, a reduction of 20%.
  • Cebu Pacific and Thai Air Asia also reduced capacity by over 240,000 seats this month, and 15% and 14% reduction respectively.
    Despite reducing capacity by 11%, Thai Vietjet Air has more than doubled capacity since Sept 2019.

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