Charting the trends – latest weekly air capacity and flight frequency insights (week 9, 2023)

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charting the trends

2 March, 2023

They say ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. In this regular section CTC – Corporate Travel Community incorporates and expands on the popular charts produced in the 2020 air capacity series ‘Coronavirus Statistics Snapshot’.

These are sourced from CAPA - Centre for Aviation analysis of OAG schedule data and incorporates seat detail from CAPA's own database.

It offers a weekly look at how the pandemic is impacting global flight levels and seat capacity in the world’s largest markets.

Headline global air travel system data for week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Departure frequencies up +0.50% versus last week; up +15.28% versus 2022; up +59.53% versus 2021; down -5.18% versus 2020 and down -11.49% versus 2019.

Seat capacity up +0.56% versus last week; up +25.54% versus 2022; up +101.64% versus 2021; down -1.30% versus 2020 and down -10.06% versus 2019.

Global air travel system data by region for week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Largest airlines by system seat capacity for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Largest airports by system seat capacity for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Domestic air travel for week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Departure frequencies up +0.35% versus last week; up +7.21% versus 2022; up +31.41% versus 2021; down -3.00% versus 2020 and down -7.81% versus 2019.

Seat capacity up +0.26% versus last week; up +9.09% versus 2022; up +34.94% versus 2021; up 5.60% versus 2020 and down -0.76% versus 2019.

Largest country and territories by domestic departing frequencies for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Largest country and territories by domestic seat capacity for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Largest airlines by domestic seat capacity for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Largest airports by domestic seat capacity for the week commencing 27-Feb-2023

International air travel for week commencing 27-Feb-2023

Departure frequencies up +0.84% versus last week; up +40.25% versus 2022; up +223.31% versus 2021; down -9.97% versus 2020 and down -19.11% versus 2019.

Seat capacity up +0.83% versus last week; up +45.32% versus 2022; up +263.97% versus 2021; down -6.79% versus 2020 and down -17.07% versus 2019.