OAG: The UAE market continues to record continuous growth rates

588 thousand seats on flights through the country's airports this week

The UAE accounts for 28% of the total capacity occupied by airlines in the region.

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OAG International, which provides airport and airline data, revealed that airlines operating in the UAE airports will operate a total of about 588,000 seats on flights during the week that began on February 22, compared to about 582,000 a week. Previous, with a growth rate of about 1%.

The corporation’s data, obtained by Emirates Today, showed that the UAE market continued to record continuous growth rates during the past weeks, with national carriers resuming their operations to more destinations around the world, indicating that the current total seat capacity constitutes 40% of the capacity in Corresponding period of 2020, which reached more than 1.47 million seats.

Local market

According to the data, airlines in the Middle East region will occupy about 2.1 million seats this week, a decline of 1.7% compared to the previous week, indicating that the UAE market accounts for about 28% of the total capacity occupied by airlines in the region. As a whole.

The corporation indicated that airlines occupied a total of 2.1 million seats during last November, increasing to 2.49 million seats in the following December, and 2.57 million during January of 2021.

She added that airlines in the UAE market will operate, this week, 2,478 scheduled flights, compared to 2,462 flights in the previous week, noting that these companies operated in total about 8,900 flights during last November and 10.3 thousand flights in December, to increase to More than 10.6 thousand in January 2021.

Globally

Globally, OAG reported that seat capacity, at the level of various regions of the world, did not witness significant changes during the current week, by about 53 million seats, compared to about 52 million in the previous week, noting that the currently scheduled capacity for the month of March is about 278.2 million seats compared to the 380.8 million commissioned in March 2020.

She added, "If March 2021 follows the same performance indicators for February, where we have witnessed a reduction in capacity by about 8%, then we can look at a capacity of about 256 million seats in the next month, and it will be about a third less than last year's level in the same period."

Continued operation

OAG stated that nine geographical regions out of the 17 regions around the world continue to operate at less than 50% of pre-Covid-19 levels, noting that Western Europe is the worst-performing region with the loss of three quarters of its usual capacity, while Six regions recorded weekly growth, with South America topping an increase of 5.9%.

She added that the future capacity still reflects the airlines' hopes of increasing demand, as vaccination operations continue and consumer confidence is rebuilt.

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