OAG Coronavirus Update - Week Thirty-One Airline Network Planners Take a Holiday
Network planners are on holiday this week. With only a 67,000 change in global seats this week compared to last week; less than 0.2% change it could be assumed that those planning scheduled have either given up trying to plan around lockdowns and quarantines or taking a well-deserved rest
Unfortunately, that 67,000 is a reduction on last week’s capacity and we are now at 58.2 million weekly seats; that’s an 11% increase over the last four weeks leaving us with just over (50.6%) of the capacity available last year.
Typically, the last full working week of December sees global capacity at around 10 million seats less than a typical week in August; extrapolate that forward and we could be looking at some 48 million scheduled seats a week in December this year. That would equate to a decline year on year of some 62 million seats or a decline of 57% year on year.
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