Airline capacity continues to fall as Omicron spreads with 33 million seats now dropped in two weeks to the end of March. The great thing about data is not just the actual numbers but the trends and patterns that emerge; unfortunately, those trends this weekend are probably what we anticipated. England provided their customary two batting collapses inside four days to be “whitewashed” in Australia and global aviation capacity fell again week-on-week. Another 1.7 million seats (-2.1%) were dropped as airlines continue to adjust schedules and we are now at 71.5% of pre-covid capacity levels. In the same week last year, capacity was at 53.4% so for those of you looking on the bright side of life, capacity has increased by some 43% year-on-year!
On another optimistic note we have started to include April 2022 capacity in the forward-looking snapshot and that shows current planned capacity at 396.6 million just marginally below the current March level BUT, again for the optimist 48%…