Global airline capacity for October 2009 is showing positive growth of 1.04 per cent compared to October 2008, down slightly from September’s growth of 1.4 per cent, according to OAG report. The world’s airlines have 299.9 million seats available this month, a rise of 1.04 per cent (3,091,580 more seats) over October 2008 levels.
Frequencies are marginally down compared to October 2008. The world’s airlines have scheduled a total of 2.4 million flights for October 2009, down by one per cent (24,445 fewer flights) compared with the same month last year. Last month, the year-on-year global frequency figure was down by 0.6 per cent and capacity was up by 1.4 per cent. The low cost sector is slowing in growth. However, growth is strong in the Middle East with 12 per cent more flights, Latin America with 54 per cent international and 48 per cent domestic capacity growth, and Africa with nine per cent increase in flights.
David Beckerman, Vice President, OAG Market Intelligence said, “We’re seeing continued growth in global capacity even with slight decreases in frequency across Europe and North America as we go into fall, |