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Increase in airline passengers 'welcome'
One sector commentator has welcomed the news that an upturn has been recorded in airline capacity.
David Beckerman, vice-president of market intelligence at aviation workflow data and analytics firm OAG, was commenting on the recent news from the company that seat capacity cutbacks are starting to stabilise.
Indeed, just over 315 million seats were on offer this month, a drop of just one per cent from July 2008 levels.
Furthermore, the world''s airlines have scheduled a total of 2.55 million flights for July 2009, down by three per cent compared with the same month last year, with a drop in capacity of 3.3 million fewer seats on offer to travellers around the globe.
And last month, the year-on-year global frequency and capacity figures were down by four per cent and two per cent respectively.
"Air travel is especially vulnerable to economic pressures and so this upward trend in airline capacity is a very welcome indicator of an increase in anticipated demand," Mr Beckerman said.
