The demand for business class is also growing, forcing airlines to constantly provide new and improved products and services.
In this week's "Did you know?", we take a closer look at the boom in the number of business class seats available to travellers.
Accumulated global business class seat growth volume 1990-2018
Source: CAPA - Centre for Aviation & OAG
Year-on-year global business class growth percentage
Source: CAPA - Centre for Aviation & OAG
A variety of analytical data tools for managing and interpreting industry trends is available to CAPA Members. Tools include:
- Route Capacity Analyser - look up future and historic seat capacity per airline on any non-stop route worldwide;
- Rankings - create listings of the largest to smallest airlines/airport/routes by capacity;
- Traffic Benchmarking - compare airline/airports in terms of their monthly and annual traffic results;
- Fleet Analytics - look into future deliveries by airline/country/region, look up in-service and on-order aircraft by manufacturer/ aircraft type;
- LCCs - displays LCC capacity share growth over the past 10 years by country/ region;
- Codesharing - find the codeshare agreements for all airlines operating to a specific country/airport.
To find out more, visit centreforaviation.com