DOMESTIC SKIES: 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.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN COSTA RICA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

7,867

0.1 %

157,340

(-1.4) %

1983

7,300

(-7.2) %

146,000

(-7.2) %

1984

5,324

(-27.1) %

113,347

(-22.4) %

1985

3,911

(-26.5) %

89,953

(-20.6) %

1986

3,914

0.1 %

95,020

5.6 %

1987

4,247

8.5 %

127,410

34.1 %

1988

3,285

(-22.7) %

96,174

(-24.5) %

1989

3,273

(-0.4) %

79,918

(-16.9) %

1990

4,204

28.4 %

92,488

15.7 %

1991

4,193

(-0.3) %

88,398

(-4.4) %

1992

8,299

97.9 %

134,075

51.7 %

1993

11,771

41.8 %

168,859

25.9 %

1994

13,179

12.0 %

283,158

67.7 %

1995

13,844

5.0 %

260,135

(-8.1) %

1996

15,434

11.5 %

253,065

(-2.7) %

1997

23,243

50.6 %

277,012

9.5 %

1998

23,023

(-0.9) %

270,036

(-2.5) %

1999

28,579

24.1 %

337,723

25.1 %

2000

23,727

(-17.0) %

278,029

(-17.7) %

2001

17,350

(-26.9) %

208,200

(-25.1) %

2002

18,980

9.4 %

227,760

9.4 %

2003

8,516

(-55.1) %

102,192

(-55.1) %

2004

21,492

152.4 %

272,926

167.1 %

2005

28,705

33.6 %

410,337

50.3 %

2006

34,125

18.9 %

513,317

25.1 %

2007

41,965

23.0 %

662,291

29.0 %

2008

40,300

(-4.0) %

632,830

(-4.4) %

2009

30,360

(-24.7) %

445,981

(-29.5) %

2010

38,440

26.6 %

557,865

25.1 %

2011

44,761

16.4 %

575,897

3.2 %

2012

34,689

(-22.5) %

386,862

(-32.8) %

Richard Maslen

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