Olympics 2021 Lead To A Sprint In Japanese Airline Capacity
This is traditionally one of the peak weeks for airline capacity in the aviation industry, a combination of school holidays throughout Europe and the attraction of sunburn on a Mediterranean beach explain the 119 million seats on offer in 2019. This week that capacity is down at 82.7 million and although that is cause for celebration, it is the first week since the pandemic that we have broken through that mark with an additional 2.8 million seats added week-on-week. It is also the first week of “freedom” in the UK, the introduction of a new colour traffic light for travel and the supreme irony of key UK politicians locked down; there is always a silver lining in anything!
As is always the case airlines continue to adjust their schedules, in many cases just adjusting capacity for the next sixty-day period as they attempt to read demand. Nearly two million seats have been removed for July, and in August a further 6.8…