THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: Costa Rica

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

COSTA RICA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

Nature Air (5C)

240

3,678

37.7 %

(-17.0) %

2

SANSA Airlines (RZ)

300

3,600

36.9 %

(-9.9) %

3

SANSA for LACSA (LR)

310

2,480

25.4 %

(-4.3) %

(Others)

-

-

-

TOTAL

850

9,758

-

(-11.4) %

COSTA RICA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

LACSA (LR)

114

15,166

22.1 %

(-0.3) %

2

United Airlines (UA)

69

10,836

15.8 %

(-1.4) %

3

American Airlines (AA)

59

10,420

15.2 %

(-1.5) %

4

Copa Airlines (CM)

79

9,442

13.7 %

26.4 %

5

Delta Air Lines (DL)

22

3,960

5.8 %

(-21.7) %

6

US Airways (US)

17

2,596

3.8 %

0.0 %

7

Iberia (IB)

7

2,300

3.3 %

0.0 %

8

Spirit Airlines (NK)

11

1,826

2.7 %

0.0 %

9

JetBlue Airways (B6)

11

1,650

2.4 %

0.0 %

10

Aerorepublica (P5)

12

1,272

1.9 %

0.0 %

(Others)

88

9,259

13.5 %

36.2 %

TOTAL

489

68,727

-

4.5 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…