Europe's Low-Cost Carriers Summer Shuffle
Fed up with looking back at 2020 data we’ve sneaked a peek forward at how some of the major European low-cost carriers are viewing their Summer programmes; when it's dark and dreary outside thinking of the Summer sounds a great idea.
Now, comparison with Summer 2020 is worthless and Summer 2021 still has a lot of shaping up but by comparing the coming Summer with the same period in 2019 we can get a sense of how they are feeling.
We’ve applied the principle of the “Big Three” and focussed purely on easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air; collectively they account for nearly half (46%) of all planned LCC services this summer so provide a representative feel for where these carriers see future demand. Total capacity between the three airlines for the Summer is currently set at around 138.4 million seats compared to 188.9 million in Summer 2019 so around three-quarters of what had been operated.
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