Global airline capacity this week is up 7 percent week over week with slightly fewer than 40 million seats scheduled, about 75 million fewer than this time last year, according to OAG.
Capacity is up in all but one of the top 10 regional markets this week. Carriers in Western Europe have added about a million seats, up 30.6 percent week over week, and capacity in the United Kingdom was up 88 percent week over week. Capacity in the region remains 78.7 percent below its level prior to the Covid-19 crisis.
Northeastern Asia carriers have added more than 800,000 seats this week, and the region's capacity is now only 34 percent of its levels in mid-January, OAG reported.
Southeast Asia was the only region to decrease capacity this week, down 5.9 percent. That largely stemmed from capacity cuts by Indonesian carriers Lion Air and Batik Air, though that was offset somewhat by services reopening in the Philippines, according to OAG.