Asia's Top 15 airlines drop almost 300 routes in last 12 months

27 Feb 2015 04:00:52

anna.aero

The idea that airlines regularly review their route networks and occasionally drop routes is well understood, especially by followers of Europe's extremely dynamic LCCs. However, it may come as more of a surprise to see how many routes the biggest airlines in Asia have dropped during the last 12 months, as well as how many they have started. anna.aero has identified the 15 biggest airlines operating from Asian airports (based on weekly seat capacity for the first week in March) and compared their schedules with those of the same week in 2014. According to this analysis these 15 airlines between them are now operating 566 routes that they were not operating last year, but have pulled out of 290 markets that they were operating last year. This means that for every route dropped these carriers typically start two new ones.

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