The State of the States

US Aviation swings to the positive as international capacity steps up

But before diving into the detail the headline numbers are interesting. Since the week commencing the 5th October the US market has reflected a very different trend pattern to the rest of the world as the chart below highlights. Whilst the rest of the world has seen a steady decline in capacity and is now 9 points lower than at the beginning of September, the United States has seen a thirteen-point improvement; a twenty-two-point swing to use pollster terminology.