Global airline capacity this week is up 21 percent compared with last week as carriers have added about 8.2 million seats, according to OAG.
South Asia had the highest rate of capacity growth this week, more than doubling compared with last week by adding 1.4 million seats, largely in India. Capacity in Western Europe was up 47 percent week over week with about 1.2 million seats added, more than a third of which were added by Ryanair, OAG reported. Domestic capacity in China also was up this week after last week's lockdown in Beijing, with about a million seats added to Beijing airports, bringing Chinese domestic capacity to about 86 percent of its levels prior to the pandemic.
Overall, global airline capacity this week is 41 percent of its levels this time last year, an improvement of 7 percentage points compared with last week.