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Malaysia's scheduled capacity down more than 90% from pre-COVID-19 levels
August 4th 2021
Malaysia's scheduled capacity of 1.39 million seats in the week to August 5 represented a 92.3% decline from pre-COVID-19 levels, figures from travel data company, OAG, show. Read More » It was the largest decline from levels before the pandemic among the top 20 country markets covered by the report. In second place was Taiwan, which had 901,343 seats for the same week, down 88.4% from 2019 levels, followed by Hong Kong at 917,785 seats, 87.2% below the comparable period in 2019. "Malaysia continues to run with less than 10% of normal capacity. For a country split in two by a massive stretch of water that is a problem and for the two local airlines a continued cause for concern," OAG said. "Chinese Taipei is in a slightly better situation than Malaysia. With its major markets of Hong Kong and China firmly locked and the keys thrown away, a recovery looks a long way off," OAG said. In addition to Malaysia and Taiwan, the report said six countries were operating at more than 70% below pre-COVID-19 capacity: Thailand (83.8%), Singapore (81.8%), the Philippines (72.5%), Vietnam (71.7%), Oman (70.8%) and Australia (70.5%).
