Charting Trends: Intra-African Connectivity Grows Back Above Two Million Weekly Seats
They say ‘a picture paints a thousand words’.
In this new regular report CAPA – Centre for Aviation provides an insight on latest industry trends, using data from its extensive databases.
Looking at latest capacity trends, fleet changes, interior innovations or latest airline and airport developments, the 'Charting Trends' report will offer a weekly observation on air travel.
Intra-African connectivity passes two million weekly seat milestone… again!
Intra-African air connectivity was down -0.6% on pre-pandemic levels for the week commencing 15-Jan-2024, according to data from CAPA – Centre for Aviation and OAG.
But that is not a fair observation on a market that has so much potential for future growth.
A closer look at OAG flight schedules and CAPA – Centre for Aviation aircraft configuration data reveals that late 2023 proved a key period for African air travel, when it exceeded the two million weekly internal seats figure in the week commencing 18-Dec-2023.
This was only the sixth time that landmark had been exceeded: the previous times were a consecutive five-week period between the weeks of 09-Dec-2019 and 06-Jan-2020, when a record of 2.04 million was achieved in the week commencing 16-Dec-2019.
Source: CAPA