North Atlantic skies – the gateway to Europe

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By Alex Lennane

04/07/2014

NATS, the UK’s air traffic control body, has released a video showing all the transatlantic flights that took place on one day in August last year.

If anyone was ever in any doubt about belly overcapacity between Europe and the US, this will reveal why airlines are finding it tough to keep yields up. Interesting for a Friday afternoon.

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