Numbers published by travel data provider OAG Aviation show airline capacity in the US was 1.4% short of what it was in November 2019, four months before worldwide restrictions on travel were imposed in response to the coronavirus.
The OAG data show the US, which last week marked the annual Thanksgiving holiday, faring better than Europe, where the west of the continent came in at over 13% below this month three years ago, with the UK still 12% below 2019 capacity.
Of Europe's other big economies, the picture varied, with France and Italy registering a similar shortfall to the UK but with Germany down around 30%. Spain's numbers were among the best anywhere, with capacity a mere 0.2% below what it was three years ago.
Eastern Europe, where schedules and routes have been affected to a greater extent than elsewhere by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fared much worse, at 25% lower than November 2019.
Numbers for China were worse again, with ongoing pandemic restrictions meaning capacity was almost a third less than what it was in November 2019. It was a similar story in tourism-dependent South-east Asia, where the average was around 30%, with Thailand down 35% and Indonesia not far behind.
The Middle East saw capacity back to within 2.5% of November 2019, with the hosting of the football World Cup drawing hundreds of thousands of travellers to Qatar.