Global airlines’ capacity rose 3 percent to 88.5 million this week, the highest level in 2022, as the Chinese domestic demand rebounds despite continued lockdowns in Asia’s largest travel market, aviation data provider OAG said.
Planned capacity over the next three months continues to edge closer to the 2019 mark, reflecting airlines’ confidence in the air travel rebound, the firm said in a report.
“We still have a long and increasingly harder journey back to the 109 million seats per week in 2019; if, indeed, we ever reach back to that point.
But compared to last year, things are looking a lot better in most markets,” John Grant, OAG chief analyst, wrote in a blog post on the firm’s website.—TLTP
