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Seat capacity to/from/within Japan, Asia's second biggest aviation market, is contracting by 5.5% this month, while India and Indonesia are booming (up 18.4% and 15.9%, respectively). South Korea is witnessing double-digit growth, while Malaysia is edging closer to overtaking Thailand as Asia's sixth biggest aviation market. The Philippines is meanwhile within 34,000 weekly seats of overtaking (the international only) Hong Kong as the eighth biggest aviation market in the region. Singapore rounds out the Top 10.

Capacities to Asia - Seats per week by destination country (includes domestic, where applicable): May-2011 vs May-2010

Country	May-2010	May-2011	% Change	Growth Rank	Ranking by Seats		Variance
					May-2010	May-2011
China	7,060,042	7,428,871	5.2%	18	1	1	-
Japan	3,267,930	3,089,077	-5.5%	24	2	2	-
India	1,763,569	2,087,289	18.4%	3	3	3	-
Indonesia	1,270,038	1,472,175	15.9%	6	4	4	-
South Korea	944,124	1,059,576	12.2%	12	5	5	-
Thailand	790,613	883,825	11.8%	13	6	6	-
Malaysia	783,649	882,637	12.6%	11	7	7	-
Hong Kong	589,419	668,840	13.5%	9	8	8	-
Philippines	547,650	635,781	16.1%	5	9	9	-
Singapore	517,607	587,387	13.5%	8	10	10	-
Taiwan	475,624	528,377	11.1%	14	11	11	-
Vietnam	360,055	415,133	15.3%	7	12	12	-
Pakistan	194,992	206,936	6.1%	17	13	13	-
Bangladesh	96,174	92,053	-4.3%	23	14	14	-
Sri Lanka	62,736	78,992	25.9%	1	15	15	-
Nepal	62,178	63,001	1.3%	22	16	16	-
Macau	50,904	55,385	8.8%	16	18	17	+1
Myanmar	51,813	54,332	4.9%	19	17	18	-1
Cambodia	43,393	49,130	13.2%	10	19	19	-
Maldives	34,334	39,994	16.5%	4	20	20	-
Brunei Darussalam	23,017	23,361	1.5%	21	21	21	-
Laos	17,718	18,214	2.8%	20	22	22	-
Mongolia	8,873	9,745	9.8%	15	23	23	-
Bhutan	1,952	2,440	25.0%	2	24	24	-
GRAND TOTAL	19,018,404	20,432,551	7.4%

Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation & Innovata

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