OAG July statistics

The Luton based airline data provider OAG says in its latest Global analyst report that there is an increase of 2% for flights for July versus last year, and an increase of 5% with seats offered.  This is an encouraging trend regarding airline profitably.

With summer (eventually) here, OAG for this month has taken a closer look at what it calls “the Mediterranean countries”, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.  France is not included.

Whilst domestic seat offerings in these countries (like in most parts of Europe) have stalled with less than 1% growth in the last five years, international capacity has seen strong average annual growth of over 6%.  In July 2013 international capacity for the Mediterranean countries grew by 6% – equating to 2.8m additional seats versus July 2012.  Although OAG’s schedule data does not include charter capacity, many of the traditional holiday routes in Europe have for some time been operated by low-cost carriers, giving even more credence to the figures.

are the star performers amongst this group of countries.  Tunisia will see the highest rate of international seat capacity growth – 24% – this month versus last year. www.oag.com

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