But 21.4 Million More Seats Removed From June to September Inventory
Rather like a fully laden A340, if you can remember them, global capacity continues to climb slowly with another 1.5 million seats added compared to the previous week, a 2% improvement. We are now at 72.4 million seats a week and although that sounds a lot, we remain at around one-third pre-pandemic levels and nearly 38% below the capacity on offer in the same week of 2019. We still have some way to go but a recovery does seem underway, and it is becoming increasingly easy to spot the markets that are failing to show any real signs of recovery.
Airlines are now clearly looking further out in terms of their network planning and continue to cut more capacity in the coming months. In many cases these are airlines that have just been focussed on the short-term period and not looked beyond a two-month planning window; nevertheless another 21.4 million seats have been dropped for sale between June and the end of…