Where the Cavour class fits among carrier types

Is the Cavour class more capable than the Queen Elizabeth class, and how should it be classified?

No. Its roughly twenty-two-aircraft hangar group, or about thirty with deck parking, places it around escort-carrier capability.

Usable air-group size provides a clearer carrier classification than patriotic or press labels. Cavour can house about twenty-two aircraft and reach roughly thirty only by parking aircraft on deck. That is well below the roughly forty-aircraft Queen Elizabeth class discussed earlier. In this framework, the Italian ship sits around escort-carrier capability and does not outperform the larger British carrier.