The global airline industry this week crossed the halfway point in capacity recovery, according to OAG analysis. Airlines have 60 million seats scheduled this week, an increase of 4 percent compared with last week and representing 50.4 percent of the capacity scheduled this time last year.
Recovery rates continue to vary widely across global regions, however. Western Europe had the highest growth rate this week, increasing 15 percent, or about 1.5 million seats, week over week, and now is just under two-thirds of its capacity levels from January. Most other regions showed growth this week, though some remain at a small fraction of their pre-Covid-19 levels. Upper South America, for example, is operating only 13 percent of its January capacity levels this week, according to OAG.
Southeast Asia is the only region to report a decline, 11 percent week over week, in capacity this week, as some countries in the region saw a spike in Covid-19 cases, OAG indicated.