Air Transport Capacity in North America – A Market Snapshot

With Routes Americas fast approaching we take a closer look at the air transport landscape in North America. Looking at schedule data for the past two years shows that seat capacity on flights within and from North America increased 0.1 per cent in 2013, versus 2012. In the tables below we highlight the largest airlines and airports in the North American market by seat capacity in 2013 and compare these with the previous year.

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

Scheduled Air Capacity within and from North America (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Operating Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Delta Air Lines (DL)

190,699,492

18.7 %

1.3 %

2

Southwest Airlines (WN)

161,033,116

15.8 %

2.5 %

3

United Airlines (UA)

156,657,099

15.4 %

7.9 %

4

American Airlines (AA)

123,926,569

12.2 %

2.2 %

5

US Airways (US)

104,806,379

10.3 %

0.8 %

6

Air Canada (AC)

42,384,552

4.2 %

0.3 %

7

Alaska Airlines (AS)

34,057,750

3.3 %

5.7 %

8

JetBlue Airways (B6)

32,206,378

3.2 %

4.8 %

9

WestJet Airlines (WS)

22,265,075

2.2 %

5.1 %

10

AirTran Airways (FL)

21,719,982

2.1 %

2.6 %

11

Spirit Airlines (NK)

13,566,938

1.3 %

17.3 %

12

Frontier Airlines (F9)

11,841,442

1.2 %

(-1.9) %

13

Hawaiian Airlines (HA)

11,144,172

1.1 %

1.7 %

14

Virgin America (VX)

8,213,801

0.8 %

3.2 %

15

Allegiant Air (G4)

7,870,545

0.8 %

9.4 %

TOTAL

1,019,958,642

-

0.1 %

Scheduled Air Capacity within and from North America (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Atlanta (ATL)

55,907,713

5.5 %

0.5 %

2

Chicago (ORD)

40,740,642

4.0 %

0.3 %

3

Los Angeles (LAX)

40,139,523

3.9 %

3.3 %

4

Dallas (DFW)

37,389,331

3.7 %

5.4 %

5

New York (JFK)

31,171,984

3.1 %

1.2 %

6

Denver (DEN)

30,598,268

3.0 %

(-3.0) %

7

San Francisco (SFO)

26,403,609

2.6 %

0.8 %

8

Charlotte (CLT)

26,383,000

2.6 %

4.2 %

9

Las Vegas (LAS)

24,704,925

2.4 %

1.1 %

10

Phoenix (PHX)

24,692,229

2.4 %

(-0.7) %

11

Houston (IAH)

23,640,871

2.3 %

(-2.6) %

12

Miami (MIA)

23,460,419

2.3 %

2.6 %

13

Toronto (YYZ)

22,236,068

2.2 %

2.3 %

14

Newark (EWR)

22,094,310

2.2 %

(-1.2) %

15

Minneapolis St Paul (MSP)

20,537,104

2.0 %

4.1 %

TOTAL

1,019,958,642

-

0.1 %

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…