CAPA Member data – the world's best aviation information
CAPA Members have access to an unprecedented level of data. We want to help you discover it.
Access to current and accurate data and analysis is vital for any business and its personnel, especially during a crisis. If you need to present a summary on the impact of the COVID-19 or other topics, CAPA has an unprecedented level of data, news and analysis available for its Members.
Using Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China as a practical case study, here are some tips on how our CAPA Members can quickly navigate our website to gain powerful insights.
For a more in depth overview of how CAPA Members utilise our tools, watch the video available here.
Firstly, go to the Search box and enter 'Guangzhou' and select it from the list.
Next, visit the 'News' tab.
Traffic has tumbled 84% in February, to just 966,796 passengers in the month.
The 'Traffic' tab graphically illustrates how far Guangzhou's traffic has fallen.
From the 'Schedules Analysis' tab, we can see that airlines have slashed their capacity into Guangzhou last month, providing just 3.38 million seats per week to/from the city.
But this equates to a load factor of just 29%, which is clearly not a sustainable situation. The forward (filed) schedules look brighter, but this could change if the demand picture continues to remain so weak.
Also on the 'Schedules Analysis' tab, CAPA Members can quickly check the biggest carriers in the Guangzhou market, which are China Southern, followed by Shenzhen Airlines, China Eastern and Air China.
Switching to China Southern Airlines' (IATA code: CZ) profile, we can see CZ is the world's 10th biggest airline, by seats per week.
The airline has 479 aircraft in its fleet, plus 97 on order, according to the CAPA Fleets database, as presented on the airline's profile 'About' tab on the CAPA site.
Looking at the 'Fleet' tab, we can see the live location of these aircraft.
The 'Fleet tab' also shows when the 97 on-order aircraft are due for delivery. 49 of them are due to arrive this year, including 34 Boeing 737s.
China Southern's 'Schedules Analysis' tab also shows the deep cuts the airline is making to its capacity, and the - currently - planned steps back in capacity.
The 'Schedules Analysis' tab also shows CZ's biggest routes - this view showing the top ten international seats per week.
Speaking of routes, the 'Rankings' area of the Data centre shows the biggest airlines, airports, and busiest routes in the world - and much more.
Using the routes Ranking drop-down, we can see Vietnam now owns the world's busiest route (Ho Chi Minh City-Hanoi), displacing hard-hit South Korea and the Jeju-Seoul route, where capacity has fallen sharply in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
These rankings will change in the dynamic market that is the global aviation industry through this crisis. The CAPA tools, available to CAPA Members around the clock, are constantly live and updated.
If you need a little help to navigate the site, and find more data that you may not have seen here, please contact us - membership@centreforaviation.com.
