Schools out – UK summer flight market continues to surprise

Commentators would have you believe that the market is soft this summer as Brexit continues to dominate and Sterling continues to fall against most currencies making the cost of that holiday even more expensive. But is that really the case? Our analysis suggests it isn’t quite that bad….

August will see some 17.3 million departing seats from UK airports compared to 17.0 million last year, an increase of just over 1.5% which equates to around another 8,400 seats a day compared to last year. That increase in capacity is also based on fewer flights with some 171 fewer scheduled services planned this month than last year which of course implies the increasing use of larger aircraft and indeed the average number of seats per departing flight this August will be 165 compared to 162 last August suggesting perhaps more squeezing of leg room for some of us!

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