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 | OCTOBER 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 | OCTOBER 2024

KEY POINTS

  • Total Capacity across SE Asia this month is 38.6m seats, 7.3% higher than October 2023, but still 13.1% behind Oct 2019.
  • International capacity grew at a faster rate than domestic capacity vs last year, by 12.1% vs 3.9% respectively.
  • Neither have recovered fully compared with October 2019

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TOTAL SEATS BY COUNTRY | OCTOBER 2024

KEY POINTS

  • Indonesia remains the largest SE Asia market with 12.8m seats, representing 32% of the market.
  • Daily capacity has increased by 10% in Thailand and the Philippines vs last month.
  • Nevertheless, with the exception of the Philippines, capacity has not recovered to 2019 levels in the top 5 busiest markets.  It is 17.4% lower in Malaysia, down 16.5% in Thailand and down 14.7% in Indonesia.
  • Daily capacity reduced in Malaysia and Indonesia, by 3% and 2% respectively vs last month.
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TOP 10 FLIGHT ROUTES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | OCTOBER 2024

TOP 10 INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT ROUTES in South East Asia

  • Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Singapore (SIN) is the busiest international route again this month with 481,100 seats, 131,000 more seats than the next busiest route Bangkok (BKK) to Singapore (SIN).
  • Singapore remains the largest 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 operate between Singapore and other major regional hub airports - Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Bangkok (BKK), Jakarta (CGK) and Denpasar (DPS).
  • Hong Kong - Singapore (HKG-SIN) moved into 9th busiest international route, displacing Hong Kong - Manila (HKG-MNL) from the top 10 to 11th 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 860,700 seats.
  • 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 has increased most on the routes in the Philippines: Cebu to Manila (CEB-MNL) and Davao to Manila (DVO-MNL), increasing by 9% and 10% respectively daily vs last month.
  • Capacity reduced most on the Jakarta to Medan Kuala Namu (CGK-KNO) and Jakarta to Makassar (CGK-UPG) routes, declining by 10% and 9% daily respectively.
  • It also reduced by 9% daily on the Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City (DAD-HAN) route, continuing the trends of reduction from last month.
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TOP 10 BUSIEST AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | OCTOBER 2024

TOP 10 AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA BY TOTAL SEATS

  • Singapore remains the largest airport in the region again this month, with 3.6m seats. Jakarta (CGK) is not far behind Singapore with just 39,700 seats between them this month.
  • Daily capacity at Bangkok Don Mueang International increased most by 21.7% vs last month.
  • Daily capacity also increased at Manila Ninoy Aquino International by 4.4% vs last month.
  • The top 10 airports account for 59% of the region's capacity.
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TOP 10 FASTEST CHANGING AIRPORTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA BY INTERNATIONAL SEATS

  • The largest increase in international capacity was at Bangkok Dom Mueang International Airport, increasing by 175,300 seats which is a 30.5% increase vs last month.
  • International capacity also increased at Phuket, by 10.8%.
  • International capacity increased by 7.2% at Phnom Penh making it the 10th fastest growing international airport this month and displacing Cebu to 13th place.

TOP 10 BUSIEST AIRLINES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA | OCTOBER 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 10% of the region's capacity with 3.84m seats in October 24.
  • Air Asia is second largest, with 6% regional share of capacity. However Air Asia's capacity remains 23% below October 19.
  • Cebu Pacific added the most capacity this month, increasing by 397,000 seats which represents a 22% increase vs September 24 and reverses last month's reduction.
  • Thai AirAsia also increased capacity by 22% vs last month, adding 312,600 seats.
  • Despite adding 28% more seats this month, Thai Lion Air has 37% less capacity than in October 19.

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