October 18, 2019//-Previous AviaDev papers have focused on aspects of the market – capacity, traffic, unserved markets, connectivity.
In this one we decided to look at the profile of aircraft operating within Europe. In October 2019 there will be 706,818 intra European flights operated, according to OAG schedule data.
While that is 2.5% down on October 2018, the number of flights has grown by, on average, 2.9% each year over
the last 5 years.
Two types of aircraft dominate: turboprops and narrow-body jets. No surprise there. By far the majority of flights are operated by jet aircraft and that proportion has been growing.
Intra-European flights by narrowbody jets, as defined by OAG, have grown by 20.6% over the past 5 years, averaging
annual growth of 3.8%. Add in Regional Jets, whose use has declined, as well as the newer jet aircraft such as the A220 (formerly the Cseries) which fit somewhere between the traditional narrow-body jet and the regional jet, and the flights by these jets have grown by a healthy 3.6% per annum.
Two aircraft in particular dominate and continue to be the workhorses of the European fleets: The A320 and the B737-800. A320s make up a little over 18% of all flights while 24% are operated using B737-800 aircraft.
While the range of these aircraft is 3,500km or more, the typical intra-European route is much shorter. 80% of all flights operated in October 2019 within Europe are on routes of less than 1,588km, and half are less than 830km.
The number of routes requiring aircraft which actually fly the sort of maximum range that these popular aircraft are designed for is relatively low. There are only 46 routes operated within Europe which are over 4,000km and there were 736 flights on these in October. That is 0.1% of all flights.
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