Airlines and coronavirus COVID19 in pictures

The Wuhan/coronavirus/COVID19 impact on airlines has been sudden and ugly, especially for airlines in the Asia Pacific region.

The CAPA graphs - "pictures" - in this report show how airlines have reduced capacity in the first quarter of 2020, according to CAPA's capacity analytics tool, which is built on schedules filed with our data partner OAG, coupled with the aircraft configuration data contained in the CAPA Fleets database. We have selected a handful of airlines in the Asia Pacific region.

These quite striking reductions only show the number of seats being flown. They don't directly address how full those flights are and for obvious commercial reasons airlines are reluctant to give too much away; but stories abound of much less than half full flights.

The graphic examples contained in this short report relate only to a handful of countries and airlines. As the impact of COVID19 continues - and hopefully abates - CAPA will provide further reports.