Finnair Plc Stock Exchange Release 8 September 2016 at 09:00 am
EET
Number of passengers grew 2.3% year‐on‐year
In August, Finnair's overall capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres grew
by 7.5 per cent and traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 3.5
per cent year‐on‐year. The passenger load factor declined by 3.2 percentage
points year-on-year to 83.1 per cent.
The capacity in Finnair’s largest traffic area, Asia, grew by 12.3 per cent in
August, boosted in particular by the newly launched Fukuoka and Guangzhou
routes, and traffic grew by 5.4 per cent. Capacity in American traffic increased
by 17.2 per cent, mainly due to increased Chicago frequencies, and traffic
measured in RPK increased by 8.0 per cent.
The capacity in European traffic grew by 1.2 per cent, and traffic measured in
RPK increased by 0.5 per cent year‐on‐year. The capacity in domestic traffic
contracted by 0.7 per cent, and traffic decreased by 0.8 per cent year‐on‐year.
In August, the cargo capacity in scheduled traffic measured in Available Tonne
Kilometres grew by 4.9 per cent, and Revenue Tonne Kilometres increased by 8.7
per cent year on year. In addition, Finnair’s total freight capacity includes
two weekly freighter flights between Helsinki and Brussels and two weekly
freighter flights shared with IAG between Helsinki and London, both operated by
DHL.
In August, 88.9 per cent of all Finnair flights arrived on schedule (91.9).
Traffic statistics for September 2016 will be published on Monday, 10 October
2016.
Finnair Traffic Performance August 2016
August 2016 %-Change Year-to date 2016 %-Change
Total Traffic
Passengers 1000 981,7 2,3 7 295,3 6,6
Available seat 3 045,8 7,5 22 778,4 7,4
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 2 530,9 3,5 18 270,7 6,3
kilometres mill
Passenger load 83,1 -3,2 p 80,2 -0,8 p
factor %
Cargo tonnes total 12 490,3 9,6 96 415,6 14,2
Available tonne 450,4 9,4 3 357,1 8,6
kilometres mill
Revenue tonne 302,6 4,2 2 215,7 8,2
-kilometres mill
Overall load 67,2 -3,4 p 66,0 -0,3 p
factor %
Europe
Passengers 1000 633,8 2,3 4 526,7 5,1
Available seat 1 216,5 1,2 8 925,2 3,1
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 960,4 0,5 7 062,9 3,3
kilometres mill
Passenger load 78,9 -0,6 p 79,1 0,2 p
factor %
North Atlantic
Passengers 1000 30,8 2,5 207,3 18,1
Available seat 263,9 17,2 1 841,5 28,4
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 219,0 8,0 1 495,8 22,9
kilometres mill
Passenger load 83,0 -7,1 p 81,2 -3,6 p
factor %
Asia
Passengers 1000 170,6 5,2 1 196,0 5,4
Available seat 1 460,1 12,3 11 016,6 7,9
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 1 282,4 5,4 9 020,7 6,1
kilometres mill
Passenger load 87,8 -5,8 p 81,9 -1,4 p
factor %
Domestic
Passengers 1000 146,4 -1,0 1 365,4 11,1
Available seat 105,3 -0,8 995,1 10,1
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 69,1 -0,8 691,4 10,4
kilometres mill
Passenger load 65,6 -0,0 p 69,5 0,2 p
factor %
Cargo Traffic
Cargo scheduled 11 210,6 12,3 84 695,5 14,7
traffic total tonnes
Europe tonnes 2 220,0 37,4 16 966,5 24,5
North Atlantic 884,2 22,8 6 155,1 17,9
tonnes
Asia tonnes 7 972,3 6,1 60 422,7 12,1
Domestic tonnes 134,2 1,3 1 151,1 6,2
Cargo flights, 1 279,7 -9,5 11 697,5 10,3
tonnes**
Cargo tonnes total 12 490,3 9,6 96 415,6 14,2
Available tonne 129,7 5,0 987,4 7,0
kilometres* mill
Revenue tonne 76,0 6,3 581,1 13,7
kilometres mill
Available 121,8 4,9 923,4 7,1
sched.cargo tonne
kms*, mill.
Revenue 69,4 8,7 521,7 13,8
sched.cargo tonne
kms, mill.
Cargo load factor* 58,6 0,7 p 58,8 3,5 p
%
- North-Atlantic 37,9 2,4 p 39,9 0,1 p
cargo load factor* %
- Asia cargo load 63,1 2,2 p 61,4 4,3 p
factor* %
Scheduled traffic 57,0 1,9 p 56,5 3,3 p
Cargo load factor*,
%
* Operational calculatory capacity
** Including purchased traffic
– Change %: Change compared to the figures of the respective periods in the
previous year (p = percentage points)
– Available seat kilometres, ASK: Total number of seats available, multiplied by
the number of kilometres flown
– Revenue passenger kilometres, RPK: Number of revenue passengers carried,
multiplied by kilometres flown
– Passenger load factor: Share of revenue passenger kilometres of available seat
kilometres
– Available tonne kilometres, ATK: Number of tonnes of capacity for carriage of
passengers, cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown
– Revenue tonne kilometres, RTK: Total revenue load consisting of passengers,
cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown
– Overall load factor: Share of revenue tonne kilometres of available tonne
kilometres
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