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Southeast Asian and Oceania airlines cut capacity by 600,000 plus seats a week
July 7th 2021
In the last seven days airlines in Southeast Asia and Oceania have significantly reduced capacity from the ongoing impact of COVID-19, figures from travel data company, OAG, reveal. Read More » In Oceania, domestic travel restrictions in Australia have resulted in airlines taking about 260,000 seats out of the market, a 19.2% week-on-week reduction. "For airlines in Australia the continual stopping and starting of services must be very frustrating and with inbound travel now expected to be restricted until early 2022 things may get worse before they get better," OAG said, referring to the Australian government's halving of incoming international passenger caps. Available seats in Southeast Asia fell 10.8% week-on-week, to 3.2 million, OAG said, with Vietnam and Malaysia losing about 250,000 seats and 72,000 seats, respectively. Malaysia was operating at less than 10% of pre-COVID-19 capacity levels, OAG said. "Before COVID-19 local airlines were struggling to survive. The latest setbacks and long-term travel restrictions will place more pressure on these carriers," OAG said.
