Coronavirus Has Wiped Out More Than 90% of International Flights
- Total global capacity has dropped below 30 million seats: OAG
- OAG sees downtrend in global airline industry near its bottom
The flight control tower stands beyond an empty access road at the non-operational Orly airport, near Paris, France, on April 11.
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Airlines have cut international capacity to just half a million seats a week from an average of 5.9 million before the coronavirus shut borders and decimated travel demand, according to OAG Aviation Worldwide.
“There isn’t much more international capacity that can be dropped around the globe,” OAG senior analyst John Grant wrote in a post dated April 20.