Airline Capacity Continues to Climb Like An A340…Slowly But Surely US Capacity Races Ahead of TSA Checkpoint Volumes
Another one million additional seats added back week-on-week, carry on at this rate and capacity will be back to pre-pandemic levels by this time next year, if only it was that simple.
Whilst the recent pattern of capacity growth is positive, new spikes of COVID in Eastern Europe and particularly Lower South America continue to cause concern whilst Japan’s airlines have announced capacity cuts of over 30% for April across their domestic networks.
Against that backdrop it is not surprising that an additional nine million seats have been removed for the rest of this month compared to last week and some 20 million in April; clearly no joke for network planners at the beginning of April then. Capacity for May has seen a slight reduction against last week’s plans, but most airlines are now looking at no more than six weeks forward which is probably around five weeks more than any of us!
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