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Airlines globally have removed 20.6 million seats from their selling systems to the end of December
September 21st 2021
Travel data provider, OAG, has reported that load factors are 10% to 15%t below normal levels, according to its latest figures. Read More » OAG said it is tracking a “slow, but now steady” reduction in demand and estimates it is 30% to 40% below normal levels. There is also little sign of a recovery in business traffic. However, in Southeast Asia almost 200,000 seats were added to capacity in the last week, including domestic capacity in Malaysia.
The Southwest Pacific saw 35,000 seats added but OAG analyst, John Grant, said capacity in that region, like Southeast Asia, remained at 30% of normal levels. “Unfortunately, those positive growth rates are drowned out by just a 2.5% reduction in capacity in North-East Asia,’’ Grant said. “This time last week the region had become very close to taking over as the largest regional market, but a drop of nearly half a million seats has set that ambition back by a few weeks.”
