Air Transport Capacity in Central & Eastern Europe - A Market Snapshot

With Routes Europe fast approaching we take a closer look at the air transport landscape in Central and Eastern Europe. Looking at schedule data for the past two years shows that seat capacity on flights within and from and Central and Eastern Europe increased 6.5 per cent in 2013, versus 2012, even though departures only rose 1.6 per cent, suggesting larger aircraft are now being deployed on flights within and from this region. In the tables below we highlight the largest airlines and airports in the Central and Eastern Europe market by seat capacity in 2013 and compare their performance with the previous year.

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

SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY WITHIN AND FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Operating Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (SU)

18,483,574

13.7 %

19.2 %

2

Wizz Air (W6)

7,582,440

5.6 %

8.3 %

3

Ryanair (FR)

7,492,527

5.6 %

19.3 %

4

UTair (UT)

7,237,252

5.4 %

3.0 %

5

Transaero Airlines (UN)

7,214,813

5.3 %

24.0 %

6

S7 Airlines (S7)

6,332,116

4.7 %

15.3 %

7

Rossiya Airlines (FV)

4,573,038

3.4 %

15.2 %

8

Lufthansa (LH)

3,647,713

2.7 %

7.2 %

9

LOT Polish Airlines (LO)

3,429,724

2.5 %

(-9.9) %

10

Ukraine International Airlines (PS)

3,313,129

2.5 %

101.0 %

11

airBaltic (BT)

2,800,587

2.1 %

(-0.4) %

12

Czech Airlines (OK)

2,752,830

2.0 %

(-12.5) %

13

Turkish Airlines (TK)

2,748,975

2.0 %

17.8 %

14

Ural Airlines (U6)

2,561,298

1.9 %

56.8 %

15

Austrian Airlines (VO)

2,206,549

1.6 %

37.7 %

TOTAL

134,877,014

-

6.5 %

SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY WITHIN AND FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Moscow (SVO)

16,938,233

12.6 %

10.1 %

2

Moscow (DME)

16,755,063

12.4 %

0.6 %

3

St Petersburg (LED)

7,229,825

5.4 %

12.1 %

4

Moscow (VKO)

7,144,678

5.3 %

25.9 %

5

Prague (PRG)

6,704,890

5.0 %

(-1.3) %

6

Warsaw (WAW)

5,876,596

4.4 %

9.4 %

7

Budapest (BUD)

5,273,829

3.9 %

(-0.7) %

8

Bucharest (OTP)

4,813,816

3.6 %

7.4 %

9

Kiev (KBP)

4,277,182

3.2 %

(-12.4) %

10

Riga (RIX)

3,293,915

2.4 %

1.6 %

11

Belgrade (BEG)

2,337,359

1.7 %

9.8 %

12

Krakow (KRK)

2,234,037

1.7 %

9.8 %

13

Sofia (SOF)

2,158,258

1.6 %

(-0.8) %

14

Baku (GYD)

1,973,498

1.5 %

2.4 %

15

Gdansk (GDN)

1,775,226

1.3 %

5.1 %

TOTAL

134,877,014

-

6.5 %

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…