DOMESTIC SKIES: Democratic Republic of Congo

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

11,412

11.7 %

848,098

6.7 %

1983

10,686

(-6.4) %

814,200

(-4.0) %

1984

9,083

(-15.0) %

719,601

(-11.6) %

1985

5,616

(-38.2) %

546,825

(-24.0) %

1986

8,414

49.8 %

768,755

40.6 %

1987

12,665

50.5 %

1,036,204

34.8 %

1988

11,618

(-8.3) %

1,026,156

(-1.0) %

1989

10,268

(-11.6) %

999,618

(-2.6) %

1990

10,457

1.8 %

1,023,288

2.4 %

1991

9,368

(-10.4) %

893,382

(-12.7) %

1992

7,638

(-18.5) %

766,628

(-14.2) %

1993

5,776

(-24.4) %

546,418

(-28.7) %

1994

5,475

(-5.2) %

607,238

11.1 %

1995

4,696

(-14.2) %

708,744

16.7 %

1996

6,839

45.6 %

762,475

7.6 %

1997

5,430

(-20.6) %

560,476

(-26.5) %

1998

4,721

(-13.1) %

475,308

(-15.2) %

1999

3,830

(-18.9) %

319,546

(-32.8) %

2000

3,495

(-8.7) %

305,620

-4.4) %

2001

3,692

5.6 %

418,001

36.8 %

2002

2,987

(-19.1) %

286,669

(-31.4) %

2003

2,468

(-17.4) %

225,901

(-21.2) %

2004

3,226

30.7 %

361,564

60.1 %

2005

3,611

11.9 %

387,203

7.1 %

2006

3,572

(-1.1) %

393,227

1.6 %

2007

5,422

51.8 %

566,655

44.1 %

2008

6,077

12.1 %

666,343

17.6 %

2009

3,555

(-41.5) %

495,019

(-25.7) %

2010

11,732

230.0 %

1,146,238

131.6 %

2011

9,401

(-19.9) %

1,126,348

(-1.7) %

2012

7,301

(-22.3) %

960,334

(-14.7) %

Richard Maslen

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