What are the largest aviation systems, airlines and airports in this part of Africa? In our special capacity analysis reports this week to support the forthcoming Routes Africa forum in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, we look in greater detail at aviation within North Africa and from the region to the rest of the world.

On scheduled air services within North Africa, air capacity is dominated by Cairo International Airport which had almost twice as much capacity on sale in 2013 than its nearest rivals Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport and Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport. Overall seat capacity in this market declined by 5.1 per cent between 2012 and 2013 having peaked in 2010 ahead of the latest political instability across some of the larger air transport markets.

These issues have impacted the airline landscape over the past five years and the analysis below clearly shows the variation changing demand has had on the operational network capacity of airline’s flying intra-North African routes. EgyptAir continues to dominate this market but its capacity share is declining while others such as Tunisair and Libyan Airlines are growing rapidly.

Looking at schedule data for the past two years shows that seat capacity on flights within and from North Africa increased 7.1 per cent in 2013, versus 2012, with departures up by a slightly shallower rate of 6.6 per cent. In the tables, below, we highlight the largest airlines and airports in this market by seat capacity in 2013 and compare this with the previous year.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation using its OAG Schedules Analyser tool.