COVID19 Increases US Domestic Capacity

One of the beautiful things about aeroplanes is that they can broadly fly anywhere; not so beautiful is the fact that they cost a lot of money to have lying around doing nothing. The current Coronavirus event has grounded a huge number of aircraft around the world, setting new challenges for network planners trying to keep some utilisation going.

With car parks around the US full of Boeing 737max aircraft we’ve taken a quick look at where the US carriers are placing those aircrafts and how that could affect the market dynamics We’ve scanned the OAG database and identified the scheduled wide-bodied frequency of the US Big Three identifying significant changes in month on month flying between February and March purely on the carrier’s domestic networks; it’s interesting!

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