UK Has Lowest Number of Airline Flights in April Since 2001, According to OAG
significant cutbacks in airline service, both domestically and
internationally, according to the latest statistics from OAG
(http://www.oagaviation.com), the world’s leading aviation data business and
part of UBM Aviation. Frequencies and capacity within the UK for April are
down year on year by 13% and 14% respectively, representing a drop of 5,078
flights and 476,000 seats. Airlines have scheduled a total of 33,783 domestic
UK flights this month; the last time the April figures for the UK were lower
than this was in 2001.
International services to and from the UK are down by 10% (11,237 fewer
flights) with a 9% fall in capacity, or 1.6 million fewer seats.
The UK low cost sector is not escaping the cutbacks, with a 16% drop in
domestic services and seat capacity. Internationally, the low cost airlines
have scheduled 4,887 fewer flights to/from the UK with 12% reduction in
capacity of 853,000 fewer seats.
These figures are revealed in the
(Frequency & Capacity Trend Statistics), the dynamic monthly market
intelligence tool providing the latest data on current passenger airline
activity around the world.
On a global scale, the world’s airlines have scheduled 6% fewer flights
for
capacity.
UK flights compared to last year reflects the fact the UK has been
particularly hit by recessionary effects.”
OAG FACTS uses interactive graphs to display a visual trend of the
performance of a specific airport, route, country or region from 2001
onwards, sourced from OAG’s consolidated database of global airline
schedules. For a more detailed review of this month’s OAG FACTS statistics
with charts, please visit
http://www.oagaviation.com/aviation-reports/reports-facts-0409.htm.
OAG, part of UBM Aviation (http://www.ubmaviation.com), provides
essential aviation workflow data and analytics sourced from its comprehensive
proprietary airline schedules, fleet and MRO databases. UBM Aviation is a
division of United Business Media Limited (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)
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