Global Airline Seat Capacity Is Getting Really Close To Pre-Pandemic Level
Each month OAG produces an Airline Frequency and Capacity Trend Statistics Report, flight data included is sourced via Schedules Analyzer. The report contains key facts and figures including Seats by Region, Top 20 Country Pairs, Top 20 Airlines, and Top 20 Airports, plus additional information regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the recovery of the travel industry. The data below is for the month of June 2022.
SEATS BY REGION
Region
Seats in Jun-22
Change v Jun-19
Change v May-22
Africa : Central/Western Africa
2,965,975
21.8%
-0.6%
Africa : Eastern Africa
2,748,252
-11.0%
4.1%
Africa : North Africa
4,451,315
-10.5%
3.3%
Africa : Southern Africa
2,448,652
-26.3%
-2.4%
Asia : Central Asia
1,856,759
12.9%
2.1%
Asia : North East Asia
82,645,266
-20.2%
27.6%
Asia : South Asia
20,423,483
0.0%
-1.5%
Asia : South East Asia
29,021,515
-33.4%
1.1%
Europe : Eastern/Central Europe
17,174,461
-20.0%
16.3%
Europe : Western Europe
98,958,178
-11.7%
5.1%
Latin America : Caribbean
3,409,644
-14.4%
-0.6%
Latin America : Central America
10,492,486
5.0%
-1.5%
Latin America : Lower South America
12,556,740
-12.4%
-4.2%
Latin America : Upper South America
7,585,387
4.5%
-1.8%
Middle East
18,046,303
-17.3%
-0.7%
North America
98,994,173
-8.4%
2.3%
Southwest Pacific
9,528,741
-17.7%
0.5%
Global
423,307,330
-14.2%
6.7%
KEY POINTS
This month, global capacity is expected to reach 423.3m, just 14.2% behind June 2019
This represents a continued steady increase month on month, with capacity now 6.7% higher than in May 2022, which equates to an increase of 26 million seats.
This is largely being driven by capacity in North East Asia (primarily China) where there is a gradual reopening after ongoing lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities.
Europe continues to see strong growth this month and Western Europe in particular is just 11.7% behind 2019.
There are still just 4 regions which have seen capacity exceed 2019 levels – Central/Western Africa, Central Asia, Central America and Upper South America.
TOP TWENTY COUNTRY PAIRS
Country Pairs
Seats in Jun-22
Change v Jun-19
Change v May-22
Spain-United Kingdom
4,756,526
-9.6%
4.9%
Mexico-USA
3,770,215
18.0%
2.7%
Germany-Spain
2,886,149
-11.8%
5.1%
Canada-USA
2,695,288
-16.7%
17.0%
Germany-Turkey
2,154,333
11.6%
21.7%
United Kingdom-USA
2,023,208
-17.4%
5.3%
UAE -India
1,789,210
2.0%
-1.9%
Spain-Italy
1,660,399
-3.9%
7.2%
United Kingdom-Greece
1,608,524
18.3%
28.3%
Spain-France
1,542,976
-2.8%
1.2%
United Kingdom-Italy
1,534,800
-14.5%
0.9%
Germany-Italy
1,454,556
-25.1%
2.3%
Germany-Greece
1,412,040
19.7%
19.8%
France-Italy
1,290,103
-2.0%
3.7%
United Kingdom-Ireland
1,269,110
-6.6%
-3.1%
France-United Kingdom
1,191,685
-16.0%
8.8%
United Kingdom-Turkey
1,171,517
26.2%
16.0%
Germany-United Kingdom
1,110,201
-27.8%
-0.8%
Germany-USA
1,048,927
-15.9%
0.8%
Russian Federation-Turkey
1,039,822
-23.8%
48.2%
KEY POINTS
Spain-UK remains the largest country pair in the world, with 4.7m seats in June. Month on month growth has slowed to 4.9% this month.
Just 6 of the Top 20 largest country pairs are sitting above June 2019 levels, with Greece occupying two of those places with strong capacity growth to Germany and the UK continuing as traveller confidence returns.
UK-Turkey capacity is also seeing Turkey apppears in 3 places in the Top 20, with strong growth across many of it’s source leisure markets.
Again this month the Top 20 country pairs are dominated by European country pairs, with 15 of the 20 operating from countries within Europe.
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