Asian carriers are raising international passenger capacity at faster pace than industry

ASIAN carriers increased their capacity for international travel by 27.5 per cent in the year to October, compared with the same 10-month period the year before. This outpaced the industry’s 13.8 per cent growth, the latest data from the International Air Transport Association showed.

Published last week, the trade association’s monthly air-passenger analysis showed that the year-on-year rise in international passenger capacity – measured in available seat kilometres – by Asia-Pacific airlines was 17.2 per cent in October.

In contrast, the wider industry’s capacity increase for the month was only 8.6 per cent.