OAG: For the fifth week in a row, airline seats have shrunk globally

OAG International, a provider of airport and airline data, said that airlines have changed their schedules over the past week, which has led to the withdrawal of about 1.8 million seats on flights globally, indicating that airlines are seeking to adapt to the problems caused by different travel requirements. always.

In its latest report to monitor the impact of "Covid-19" on air transport performance, the Corporation added that airlines will occupy about 59.1 million seats during the current week that starts from September 7 and about 68.3 million seats in the last week of September, indicating that seat capacity has decreased globally. For the fifth week in a row according to the latest scheduled data.

The company, according to the flight plan, expected the global capacity to drop to less than 40 million in the last week of December, indicating that this “will not be a happy birthday for the aviation industry,” adding that the last week of December 2019 witnessed about 106.8 million scheduled seats. It appears that we are heading towards less than half of the global capacity by the end of the year.

And she continued: "This is not exactly the shape of the expected recovery," noting that weekly capacity in North America decreased by 6.8% on a weekly basis, while Western Europe witnessed a decrease in capacity by about half a million seats, explaining that travel restrictions and the decline in demand contributed to the decline in recovery indicators. .

As for the tables of the top 10 markets in terms of seat capacity occupied by airlines for this week, China topped with 15.3 million seats, followed by the United States with 10.5 million seats, and Japan by 2.1 million, according to the Corporation's data, which indicated a decrease in capacity in most of these Markets on a weekly basis.

Follow our latest local and sports news, and the latest political and economic developments via Google news