Industry Heads For Half A Billion Fewer Seats in Quarter One

Finally it’s over, we mean January not Covid-19 and the airline industry can breathe a sigh of relief; hopefully February will begin to see some hope for us all but even in the last few days of the month January continued to offer more punches to an industry already on its knees.

We all expected 2021 to be a year of two halves but I’m not sure anyone expected the first month of the year to bring such a bad start. At the beginning of the month there were some 264.7 million seats scheduled, by the end of the month that had fallen to 246.5 million a 7% reduction in capacity through the month