Travellers venturing abroad over the festive season should brace for fully booked flights and little flexibility | ameliamcguiree
Travellers venturing abroad over the festive season should brace for fully booked flights and little flexibility with one of the industry’s leading travel groups forecasting global aircraft seat capacity to remain 15 per cent below pre-COVID-19 levels until at least next year.
A new trend report from Flight Centre’s corporate arm shows aviation’s seat capacity will remain down by about 15 per cent until the end of the year as the industry continues to struggle with supply chain issues and staffing.Since last quarter, 94.6 million seats have been removed from airline schedules around the world. Global seat capacity for September hovered around 400 million seats, down from 2019’s peak of above 500 million.
The trend report credits the North American market for leading the airline capacity recovery, with the region expected to get to 96 per cent of its pre-COVID capacity by the end for the year. Australia and New Zealand are predicted to reach 84 per cent of their 2019 seat capacity in the same period. ‘The major stumbling block that does remain is the continued closure of borders in China. When this changes, we expect capacity to really take off.’“The major stumbling block that does remain is the continued closure of borders in China. When this changes, we expect capacity to really take off,” Burke said.
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