European airlines' active fleet now biggest since pre-COVID-19
Europe's airline seat capacity recovery continues, with three successive weeks of improvement in seat numbers as a percentage of the equivalent week of 2019. Nevertheless, it remains below its (coronavirus) pandemic era peak reached in late Dec-2021.
Europe's seat numbers are now 32.2% below 2019 levels in the week of 14-Feb-2022, which is 2.7ppts better than a week ago (week commencing 07-Feb-2022). Europe is still at the bottom of the regional ranking but is close to Asia Pacific, where capacity is down by 31.5%. Middle East capacity is down by 27.0%, Africa by 21.1%, Latin America by 15.5%, and North America by 12.3%.
Europe's seat capacity is now 68% of the equivalent week of 2019, but this is still some way short of the 91% reached in the final week of Dec-2021.
European airlines are operating more active aircraft than any time since before the pandemic - in absolute numbers and as a percentage of 2019 levels. The fleet in service is now 89% of its 2019 size (using data from CAPA Fleet Database), reflecting growing confidence in the outlook.
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