DOMESTIC SKIES: Air Capacity in United Kingdom

This year marks the return of our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. We take a look at last year’s schedule as a snapshot and compare seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

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

Scheduled Air Capacity with the United Kingdom (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

flybe (BE)

9,143,037

30.8 %

(-2.9) %

2

easyJet (U2)

8,225,512

27.7 %

5.9 %

3

British Airways (BA)

6,800,492

22.9 %

4.2 %

4

Aer Lingus (EI)

1,579,992

5.3 %

287.5 %

5

BA Citiflyer (CJ)

811,361

2.7 %

14.3 %

6

Aurigny Air Services (GR)

676,986

2.3 %

(-1.4) %

7

Eastern Airways (T3)

616,286

2.1 %

(-9.2) %

8

Ryanair (FR)

520,884

1.8 %

(-0.4) %

9

Blue Islands (SI)

427,971

1.4 %

0.7 %

10

bmi regional (BM)

266,470

0.9 %

(-43.2) %

11

Jet2.com (LS)

116,368

0.4 %

(-42.4) %

12

Citywing (V9)

103,664

0.3 %

-

13

Cityjet (WX)

80,991

0.3 %

(-39.4) %

14

Loganair (LM)

62,704

0.2 %

-

15

Isles of Scilly Skybus (IOS)

60,928

0.2 %

4.1 %

TOTAL

29,668,559

(-1.0) %

Scheduled Air Capacity within United Kingdom (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

London Heathrow (LHR)

3,399,442

11.5 %

6.9 %

2

Edinburgh (EDI)

3,190,379

10.8 %

2.2 %

3

Glasgow (GLA)

2,573,058

8.7 %

(-1.4) %

4

London Gatwick (LGW)

2,530,427

8.5 %

(-4.4) %

5

Belfast International (BFS)

1,886,448

6.4 %

(-3.2) %

6

Manchester (MAN)

1,798,759

6.1 %

(-5.5) %

7

Belfast George Best (BHD)

1,674,032

5.6 %

3.8 %

8

Aberdeen (ABZ)

1,338,852

4.5 %

2.7 %

9

Jersey (JER)

1,033,029

3.5 %

(-8.2) %

10

Birmingham (BHX)

948,316

3.2 %

0.5 %

11

Southampton (SOU)

878,353

3.0 %

(-0.3) %

12

Newcastle (NCL)

832,785

2.8 %

(-2.7) %

13

Bristol (BRS)

798,651

2.7 %

3.4 %

14

Guernsey (GCI)

773,236

2.6 %

0.0 %

15

London Stansted (STN)

690,210

2.3 %

(-11.1) %

TOTAL

29,668,559

(-1.0) %

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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…