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Our flight data provides insight into popular destinations for work and leisure, both present and up-and-coming. As IATA's summer season schedule is soon to start, now is a good time to look at the busiest international flight routes this month, using OAG's Schedule Analyser data. Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - Singapore (SIN) sits at the top of the list of busiest international routes this month. It's a short route (on average 185 miles) but popular for both leisure and business travelers. The Bangkok (BKK)-Seoul Incheon (ICN) route saw capacity reduce by 9% in March, bringing it down 5 places from last month, to...

 The aviation industry has faced ongoing pressures over the last 3 years, and regional jets* have fared particularly poorly. In 2022, while total airline frequencies were down 19.5%, regional jets saw a 33.5% decline (source: OAG Schedules Analyser). Indeed, in 2019 regional jets represented 14.0% of all aircraft frequencies and this dropped to just 11.6% in 2022. Narrow-bodied jets took most of this share, growing by two percentage points over the same period. *Regional jet: a jet-powered regional airliner typically operating with fewer than 100 seats.   Airlines have certainly started to question the viability of their regional route networks...

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has selected SITA to provide a carbon management platform to monitor data on carbon emissions across the airport environment, helping to track key performance indicators as the airport progresses towards its net zero carbon goal. SITA’s carbon management platform, to be fully deployed by summer 2023, will collect and aggregate data on carbon emissions from a variety of sources within the airport. This will span scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and include data from 29 participating business partners across the airport value chain, overseeing services such as ground handling, aircraft maintenance, air cargo logistics,...

Startups play an essential role in spearheading innovation that benefits consumers, businesses, and industries. But travel startups have been underfunded when compared to startups in other sectors. Looking back over the past 15 years, the travel and tourism industry received around 1 percent of funding for startups across all industries. This relatively low level of investment stands out in contrast to the industry’s size: Travel and tourism contributed to over 10 percent of global GDP in 2019. These factors suggest that it’s a tough industry in which to raise money. Despite these funding challenges, and unprecedented industry uncertainties, over $27...

Beijing-Shanghai (PEK-SHA) is the busiest domestic airline route in China this month, with a total of 755,061 scheduled seats between the two airports. This flight route sees a 24% increase month-on-month, and an 8% increase when compared to March 2019.  The second largest domestic route is Guangzhou-Shanghai (CAN-SHA) with 649,607 scheduled seats, an increase of 30% compared to last month, and a 23% compared to pre-pandemic levels in March 2019. Every month we track China’s travel recovery, here are March’s key highlights: •    China’s top three busiest airports this month are:-  Guangzhou (CAN) remains the largest airport in China...

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