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Premium traffic leads growth at IAG

Public Sector Travel — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:08:42 +0000

International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of British Airways and Iberia Airlines, has reported group traffic (excluding that of newly acquired BMI) growth of 2.9% in April. Traffic at Iberia fell at 7.8% while that at BA grew 7.8% to 10,477 million revenue passenger kilometres.

Group premium traffic grew by 4.8% from that in April 2011 while non-premium traffic increased by 2.6%.

Passenger load factor in April was 81.6%, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the 79.7% achieved in the previous year.

Passenger numbers rose 0.9% to 4,395,000 from the 4,356,000 in April 201. The growth was led by long-haul routes to North America and to Asia Pacific.

Domestic (UK and Spain) passenger numbers fell by 2.1% although domestic traffic rose by 0.3%.

Easyjet traffic leaps in April

Public Sector Travel — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:09:16 +0000

Easyjet reported 5,124,597 passengers (as measured in paid-for seats flown) last month, an increase in traffic of 8.6 % from the 4,717,402 carried last April.

Load factor on the airline rose 2.8 percentage points in April to 89.3% from the 86.5% achieved in the month last year.

Ryanair traffic up

Public Sector Travel — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:03:17 +0000

Ryanair carried 7.2 million passengers in April, an increase of 6% from the 6.8 million carried in April 2011.

Load factor dropped one percentage point to 81%.

Lufthansa numbers jump in Q1

Public Sector Travel — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:04:51 +0000

Passenger traffic for all the carriers in the Lufthansa Group – Lufthansa, Germanwings, Austrian Airlines and Swiss – rose 4.8% in the first quarter. The airlines carried 21.9 million passengers between 1 January and 31 March 2012.

The average load factor for the group increased 1.3 percentage points from that in the first quarter of 2011 to 74.2% in the first three months of 2012. Capacity increased by 2.6% and sales by 4.4%.

Lufthansa Airlines itself carried 15.8 million passengers in the first quarter, an increase of 4.1%. Load factor rose by 1.3 percentage points to 73.8%.

Traffic and loads rise at American

Public Sector Travel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:32:30 +0000

American Airlines’ system-wide traffic increased 1.3% in March to 10,796 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs). At the same time capacity decreased by 1.4% from March 2011 levels to 13,092 million available seat miles (ASMs).

This resulted in an increase in load factor of 2.2 percentage points from 80.2% a year ago to 82.5% this March.

Traffic increased 2% over the Atlantic despite capacity cuts on these routes of 7.8%. The load factor rose a substantial 7.6 points to 79.1% in comparison with 71.5% a year ago.

American Airlines boarded 7.602 million passengers last month, an increase of 2.4% from the 7.422 million that boarded in March 2011.

Finnair traffic rises

Public Sector Travel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:17:50 +0000

Finnair system-wide traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), rose 11.6% to 2,076.4 million RPKs in March. Capacity, measured in available seat kilometres, grew by 3.6% to 2,661.8 million ASKs.

Passenger load factor improved by 5.6 percentage points to 78% and passenger numbers increased 11.6% to 771,800 in March.

Good development in both Asian and European traffic drove the increases. The strongest growth in March was seen in European traffic, which increased by 26.3% from that in March 2011.

Passenger traffic and loads increase at Air France-KLM

Public Sector Travel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:12:07 +0000

Air France-KLM system-wide traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 6.8% in March. The traffic gain was led by the Americas region where it increased by 9.7%.

System-wide capacity increased by only 1.8% and the load factor improved by 3.8 points to 82.5%. On the Americas capacity rose by only 2.5% which led to a 5.8 percentage point gain in load factor from 82.4% in March 2011 to 88.2% last month.

The group carried 6.4 million passengers last month, an increase of 6.3%.

Easyjet traffic rises again

Public Sector Travel — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:43:51 +0000

Easyjet reported 4,629,241 passengers (as measured in paid-for seats flown) last month, an increase in traffic of 4.4% from the 4,435,624 carried last March.

Load factor on the airline rose 1.9 percentage points in March to 88.8% from the 86.9% achieved in the month last year.

IAG traffic and loads jump in March

Public Sector Travel — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:36:41 +0000

Traffic rose 6.2% at the International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company of British Airways and Iberia, in March. Capacity increased by only 1.1%. As a result the overall passenger load factor rose 3.8 percentage points to 78.8% in comparison with 75% in March last year.

Group premium traffic grew by 6.7% compared and non-premium traffic increased 6.2% in March.

The two airlines carried 4.223 million passengers, an increase of 1.4% from the same month a year ago.

BA traffic grew 10.2% and its capacity by 3.7% in March. At Iberia traffic fell by 2.9% and capacity by 5%.

Ryanair traffic and loads fall

Public Sector Travel — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:15:22 +0000

Ryanair carried 5.5 million passengers in March, a fall of 4% from the 5.7 million carried in March 2011.

Load factor dropped one percentage point to 78%.

The figures reflect the carrier’s policy to keep part of its fleet grounded as a response to high fuel prices.

Ryanair’s Head of Communications Stephen McNamara said: “As previously guided, Ryanair’s 2011-12 winter traffic was expected to decline by approx 5% as we sit up to 80 aircraft on the ground due to higher oil prices.”