Despite some airports capping airline capacity without consultation in the last week – and the sad, if inevitable, decision of one UK airport to begin the closing process – it has been another week of capacity reaching above 102 million seats, and we should probably enjoy that heat whilst we can.
Unsurprisingly, it is only the larger airports that are capping airline capacity for the peak holiday season, this inevitably means we will see capacity fall in the coming weeks in some key locations. Nevertheless, who would have thought that global airline capacity would be 28% up on last year and in Western Europe some 53% or 8 million seats forward; it seems that the airlines did and the airports didn’t!
Autumn Airline Capacity Strong
It may be the hottest week of the Northern Hemisphere, but it is also time to start looking a bit further forward to the autumn and we have now added October to our forward-looking capacity analysis – by which time of course we all hope that the current…
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