So Nearly Sixty One Million…But Probably Not for Long
Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Nine: Nearly breaking through sixty-one million scheduled seats a week mark would seem like great news for the Xmas week, but the emergence of a new Covid-19 variant will already have airline planners dusting down another version of their networks
In the last twenty-four-hours further lockdowns have been announced in the UK, Australian domestic services to Sydney suspended and to date five European countries have suspended all flights from the UK until January; expect others to follow. Happy Xmas everyone!
Incredibly there are still some airlines optimistic for the holiday season as capacity is expected to grow another 1.4 million in the next week. The combination of closures announced in the last day will knock over half a million seats off that number alone. Cumulatively we are now at some 2.6 billion fewer seats than last year of which 1.4 billion are across international markets; a 67% drop over the year.
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