It feels like it has been a busy week in terms of airline activity. Capacity continues to grow in some markets without there really being any logical explanation, CEO confidence across the US majors continues to grow, rumours of transatlantic corridors for the summer, warnings around extended travel bans in Europe as COVID-19 v3 over the weekend, Japan confirming no international visitors for the Summer Olympics and complete confusion around the vaccine roll out in Europe. It’s been a quiet week!
With such a topsy-turvy week of news, scheduled airlines capacity somehow or other continues to creep forward by another 1.4% to 59.8 million; the excitement of potentially breaking through the sixty-million-mark next week will keep me awake all week with anticipation.
Just to keep things in perspective though, some 17 million more seats were removed from sales this week through to the end of May and as we head towards some key deadline dates for lockdowns being eased, airlines are now…