OAG sees upward trend for travel demand
CHICAGO – Global airline capacity for September 2009 is showing positive growth for the second consecutive month, reports OAG in its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats.
Figures from the aviation data business show world’s airlines have scheduled 296.9 million seats, a rise of 1.4 percent (4,130,744 more seats) over September 2008 levels.
David Beckerman, vice president OAG Market Intelligence, said,
“As the (northern) summer season winds down, the steady upward trend we have seen since May is continuing.
“After 11 straight months of capacity cutbacks, these figures indicate a growing confidence within the industry that demand for air travel is starting to pick up.”
Frequencies are marginally down compared to September 2008.
The world’s airlines have scheduled a total of 2.4 million flights for September 2009, down by 0.6 percent (14,321 fewer flights) compared with the same month last year.
Last month, the year-on-year global frequency figure was down by two percent and capacity was up by 0.2 percent.
The month-by-month trend since the start of the economic downturn can be seen in chart format at
http://www.oagaviation.com/trends-chart-sep.jpg.
Ian Jarrett
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