As We Hit 90 Million Seats… Shortages Create an Ongoing Challenge
It has been a strange week for the airline industry. After a few weeks edging ever closer to 90 million seats a week we have finally got there with 90.7 million seats on offer. That’s a positive with China leading the breakthrough adding back some 2.2 million in capacity for the next seven days, and the good news is that we can expect more capacity in the coming weeks.
And yet despite the breakthrough number there remain shortages of all sorts around the world that are impacting a full travel recovery. EasyJet have elected to stop selling Row 26 on their A319’s to bring the operational configuration down to 150 seats and thereby avoiding the fourth crew member requirement. In August that equates to around 60,000 fewer seats for sale and probably some higher selling fares on selected services to mitigate the lost seats. In Nigeria the local airlines have suspended all domestic flights as a shortage of fuel and…
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