Global Airline Capacity Shows Positive Growth For The Second Consecutive Month, Reports OAG, As September Figures Are Released

October 7th, 2009 CHICAGO - - Hot Growth Areas include Low Cost Sectors in Beijing, Middle East, Africa and Latin America Global airline capacity for October 2009 is showing positive growth of 1.04% compared to October 2008, down slightly from September's growth of 1.4%, reports OAG, (www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats. The world's airlines have 299.9 million seats available this month, a rise of 1.04% (3,091,580 more seats) over October 2008 levels.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - - Growth of 0.2% Compared to August 2008 LONDON, August 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Global airline capacity is showing marginal growth for August 2009, the first month of positive growth for a year, reports OAG, ( www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats. The world's airlines have 314.2 million seats on offer this month, a rise of 0.2% (472,839 more seats) over August 2008 levels.

July 13th, 2009 LONDON - - Decline is Just One Percent Compared to July 2008 One year on since the world's airlines began to curb their seat capacity in the face of global economic pressures, the cutbacks are starting to stabilise with just over 315 million seats on offer this month, a drop of just one percent over July 2008 levels, reports OAG, ( www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats. David Beckerman, vice president OAG Market Intelligence, said, "Airline capacity is often cited as a barometer of economic confidence.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Downturn in Flights Most Marked Within Europe; South America set for an Upturn OAG (www.oagaviation.com) the world's leading aviation data business, has released its airline capacity outlook for the second half of 2009, to identify the projected trend in the global and regional supply of airline flights and seats. The world's airlines will offer 3.67% fewer flights and 2.76% fewer seats than they did a year ago.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - Year on Year Decline Below 3% for First Time Since October 2008 This may be the 11th successive month of cutbacks in global airline schedules; however the rate of decline in seat capacity is lower than at any time since October 2008, reports OAG, (www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business, as it releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline flights and seats. The world's airlines have scheduled 4% (104,216) fewer flights for June 2009 compared with the same month last year, with a 2% drop in seat capacity of 6.7 million fewer seats.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - Year on Year Decline has not Accelerated; 5% Fewer Flights and 2.7% Fewer Seats LONDON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite fears of the potential impact of the swine flu virus, statistics from OAG (www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business, reveal the year-on-year decline in global airline capacity has not accelerated for May 2009 compared to figures for April when the outbreak began. The world's airlines have scheduled 5% (127,000) fewer flights for May 2009 compared with the same month last year, with a 2.7% drop in seat capacity of 8.3 million fewer seats.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - The UK is experiencing significant cutbacks in airline service, both domestically and internationally, according to the latest statistics from OAG (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.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - European Schedules Down by 8%; Asia Relatively Stable - Flights and Capacity Within North America Continue to Decline Sharply - Middle East and Africa Buck the Trend With Healthy Growth in Air Travel 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, according to the latest statistics from OAG (www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business and part of UBM Aviation. This is the ninth successive month of declines, and represents a reduction of more than 136,000 flights and 9 million seats year on year.

April 1st, 2009 EDINBURGH - Year on Year Growth at end of First Quarter is 87% Leading European flight search engine Skyscanner today announced a 54% year on year increase in site traffic for the first quarter of 2009. More than 50 million flight searches take place each month on the Skyscanner site - 65% of these from outside the UK.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Eighth Successive Month of Fewer Airline Schedules - 5% Fewer Flights and 3% Drop in Seat Capacity for March 2009 - Domestic U.S. Continues to Bear the Brunt of the Cutbacks The world's airlines have scheduled 4.9% fewer flights for March 2009 compared with the same month last year, with a 3.3% drop in seat capacity, according to the latest statistics from OAG (www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business.

December 22nd, 2008 LONDON - The British economy slowed down faster in the third quarter of 2008 than previously estimated, official figures showed Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy contracted by 0.6 percent between July and September - higher than the previous estimate of 0.5 percent.

April 28th, 2009 ABU DHABI - With the launching of new flights between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the air traffic between the two nations has grown considerably even at a time of global slowdown. Driven by UAE's national career Etihad's growing capacity to South India and increased weekly frequencies, traffic at the Abu Dhabi International Airport from and to India increased by 32 percent, making India the largest market, WAM news reported.

September 10th, 2009 Airline traffic continues to declineDALLAS — Summer has come and gone without giving much lift to the nation's airlines. The carriers offered fewer flights than a year ago, and they slashed prices to fill even that reduced supply of seats, according to August traffic reports released over the past week.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Further signs of recovery in India's industry emerged Friday with the latest official data indicating a 6.8 percent growth in July over the like month last year. Notably, the manufacturing output rose 6.8 percent during the month, as per the data on the index of industrial production released by the Central Statistical Organisation here.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's industrial output fell for the third consecutive month in March by a steep 2.3 percent compared to the corresponding month last year, according to government data released Tuesday. This was the third fall in four months.

June 11th, 2009 Delta cutting more capacityATLANTA — Delta Air Lines Inc. will shave additional capacity later this year as it warns that more than $6 billion in benefits it expected from lower fuel prices, its merger with Northwest Airlines and previous capacity reductions will be overtaken by declining revenues.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Further signs of recovery in India's industry emerged Friday with the latest official data indicating a 6.8 percent growth in July over the like month last year. Notably, the manufacturing output rose 6.8 percent during the month, as per the data on the index of industrial production released by the Central Statistical Organisation here.

August 17th, 2009 TOKYO - Japan's economy grew 3.7 percent in the second quarter, the first positive increase in five quarters, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Japanese government. The figure represented a huge swing upward from the first quarter, when the gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an annualized 11.7 percent, and the quarter before that, which saw a dive of 13.1 percent.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) Thursday raised India's growth forecast for the current fiscal from 5.8 percent to 6.3 percent taking into account the improving performance of the industrial sector. "If yesterday's number (industrial production figures released Wednesday) is anything to go by, credit offtake in the coming days would be much better than we have anticipated earlier," said Subir Gokarn, chief economist at the Indian arm of S&P.

September 1st, 2009 Airline industry lost over $6 billion in 1st halfGENEVA — Airline companies lost more than $6 billion during the first half of the year due to the economic crisis, even as fresh figures showed some signs of recovery in the passenger and freight business, an industry group said Tuesday. A sample of more than 50 airlines found their losses declined to $2 billion in the second quarter from $4 billion in the first quarter, the International Air Transport Association said, noting that the April-June period is usually a strong one for the industry.