'airline capacity' is correct and can be used in written English.
Example sentence: The airline was forced to reduce its capacity due to the massive drop in travel demand this year.
Industry figures, based on hotel bookings and airline capacity, project more than 1 million additional tourists this summer.
HIGHER hotel prices, airline capacity cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2012.
Expect to Pay A combination of high oil prices, an improving economy, reduced airline capacity and the London Olympics are pushing up airfares to Europe this summer.
Global airline capacity this year is slated to rise by 5.8 percent, while demand is expected to expand by only 4.7 percent.
But experience from past mergers, as well as the current trends in reducing airline capacity, suggest that a combined airline will have fewer daily flights".
Nonstop domestic air service to Hawaii reached record levels last year as airline capacity rose by 9.1percenttoto a record 7.2 million.
Just looking at the number of seats available, domestic airlines' capacity peaked in 2005 and has generally fallen since.
The discount carriers flew 20percentt more seats in May than four years earlier, according to a report by the Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General, while the network airlines capacity was down 16percentt.
Mr. Baldwin believes that airline-capacity controls are limiting the number of 25,000-mile awards on every flight to a few seats.
In this new world of fewer airlines and less capacity, airline executives hope to achieve a level of stability that has eluded them since the federal government deregulated air travel in 1978.
The airline's capacity on that route has just expanded, she added.
