Global Airline Capacity Up 1.04% But Growth Slowing Reports OAG, as October Figures Are Released

Global Airline Capacity Up 1.04% But Growth Slowing Reports OAG, as October
Figures Are Released
Hot Growth Areas include Low Cost Sectors in Beijing, Middle East, Africa and
Latin America

CHICAGO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

David Beckerman, vice president OAG Market Intelligence, said, "We're seeing
continued growth in global capacity even with slight decreases in frequency
across Europe and North America as we go into fall, which would tend to
indicate a trend towards re-evaluating less popular routes. "

Frequencies are marginally down compared to October 2008. The world's airlines
have scheduled a total of 2.4 million flights for October 2009, down by 1%
(24,445 fewer flights) compared with the same month last year.

Last month, the year on year global frequency figure was down by 0.6% and
capacity was up by 1.4%.

The low cost sector is slowing in growth as a whole however; growth is strong
in the Middle East with 12% more flights, Latin America with 54% International
and 48% domestic capacity growth, and Africa with 9% increase in flights.

The month-by-month trend since the start of the economic downturn can be seen
in chart found by clicking here:
http://www.oag.com/graphics/trends-chart-oct09.jpg.

The figures are revealed in the October 2009 edition of OAG FACTS (Frequency &
Capacity Trend Statistics), the dynamic monthly market intelligence tool
providing the latest data on current passenger airline activity around the
world.

OAG FACTS uses interactive graphs to display a visual trend of the performance
of a specific airport, route, country or region from 2001 onwards, sourced
from OAG's consolidated database of global airline schedules. A more detailed
review of this month's OAG FACTS statistics - including information about
specific regions, routes and airports with illustrative charts and graphs - is
available to download at
http://www.oagaviation.com/aviation-reports/reports-facts-1009.htm.

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information, with essential aviation workflow data and analytics sourced from
its comprehensive proprietary airline schedules, fleet and MRO (maintenance,
repair and overhaul) databases. OAG is a leading brand of UBM Aviation, a
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SOURCE UBM Aviation

Dan Dulik, Director, Global Marketing, OAG, +1-630-515-5167,
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