Summary
- Europe has 19.6 million seats this week, down 30% vs 27.9 million in the same week of 2019. Europe is fourth, above Africa and Asia Pacific.
- Europe‘s 4Q2021 capacity is still projected at 71% of 2019 levels. 1Q2022 capacity is projected at 87% of 2019 levels, which is down from 88% last week.
- IATA: new travel restrictions are “knee jerk” reaction to the Omicron variant. There is no clear relationship between COVID case numbers and travel restrictions.
Europe has 19.6 million seats vs 27.9 million in 2019 – down 30%
In the week commencing 6-Dec-2021 total European seat capacity is scheduled to be 19.6 million, according to OAG schedules and CAPA seat configurations.
This is 29.7% below the 27.9 million seats of the equivalent week of 2019. This is 1.0ppts worse than last week’s -28.7% and down from a pandemic era high of -24.6% six weeks ago.
This week’s total seat capacity for Europe is split between 6.0 million domestic seats, versus 7.2 million in the equivalent week…
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