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UK Has Lowest Number of Airline Flights in April Since 2001, According to OAG

Posted on: Monday, 27 April 2009, 10:06 CDT

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The UK is experiencing 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 April 2009 edition of OAG FACTS (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 April 2009 compared with the same month last year, with a 3% drop in seat capacity.

David Beckerman, VP Market Intelligence at OAG, said: "The sharp drop in 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)

Notes to Editors

For media enquiries and a copy of the full Executive Summary as a Word document, please contact:

Alison Pickering, Corporate Communications, UBM Aviation, alison.pickering@ubmaviation.com, +44(0)1582-695477

SOURCE UBM Aviation

Source: PR Newswire

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