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Scheduled flight departures continue to soar

Scheduled flight departures continue to soar

7 February 2012 Airline News

The growth in scheduled flights worldwide continued again in February, with airlines providing five per cent more departures than the previous year, according to the latest statistics from OAG. In line with the general worldwide trend for larger aircraft, this translates to a slightly larger capacity increase (of six per cent) as the average available seats in February 2012 nudges towards 127 per aircraft versus 125 in the same period last year.