This infographic provides an overview of airline capacity in the Middle East and North Africa region, highlighting the busiest routes, airlines, airports and country markets. We know that some ambitious tourism targets have been set in the region, so let’s see what the data tells us as we start a new year.
In January 2024, domestic airline capacity in the Middle East and North Africa represents 18.7% of all airline capacity, at 5,181,915 seats – 2% more seats than in January 2023. There are 22,492,777 international seats in the schedule, an increase of 11% on the same month in 2023. Overall capacity in the area has increased by 9% over the last year.
Cairo-Jeddah is the busiest international airline route in the MENA region, and the second busiest in the world this month. Saudi Arabia features heavily, with either Jeddah or Riyadh in all but one of the top five routes.
Of the top 5 country markets, only Iran has not seen capacity growth vs the same month of 2023, being down by…
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