Finnair Plc Stock Exchange Release 8 June 2016 at 09:00 am EET
Number of passengers grew 6.6% year‐on‐year
In May, Finnair's overall capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres grew by
12.5 per cent and traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 9.4
per cent year‐on‐year. The passenger load factor declined by 2.1%-points to 72.9
per cent
The capacity in Asian traffic grew by 12.1 per cent in April, boosted in
particular by the Fukuoka and Guangzhou routes opened during the month, while
traffic grew by 6.2 per cent. Meanwhile, capacity in American traffic increased
by as much as 116.7 per cent due to the Miami and Chicago routes being operated
this year, and traffic measured in RPK by 83.7 per cent. The load factors in
long haul traffic declined due to strong capacity increase from new routes. New
routes typically have low load factors in the beginning of the traffic season.
The capacity in European traffic grew by 3.2 per cent, and traffic increased by
4.4 per cent year‐on‐year. At the same time, the capacity in domestic traffic
grew by 3.8 per cent and traffic by 6.0 per cent year‐on‐year.
In May, the cargo capacity in scheduled traffic measured in Available Tonne
Kilometres grew by 13.8 per cent, and Revenue Tonne Kilometres increased by 21.3
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 May, 91.9 per cent of all Finnair flights arrived on schedule (91.0).
Traffic statistics for June 2016 will be published on Friday, 8 July 2016.
Finnair Traffic Performance May 2016
May 2016 %-Change Year-to date 2016 %-Change
Total Traffic
Passengers 1000 923.1 6.6 4,271.4 7.9
Available seat 2,976.2 12.5 13,677.6 6.3
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 2,169.3 9.4 10,507.1 5.7
kilometres mill
Passenger load 72.9 -2.1,p 76.8 -0.5,p
factor %
Cargo tonnes total 12,441.6 20.8 58,143.4 14.1
Available tonne 442.5 15.1 2,012.3 6.8
kilometres mill
Revenue tonne 267.8 12.2 1,289.2 8.1
-kilometres mill
Overall load 60.5 -1.6,p 64.1 0.7,p
factor %
Europe
Passengers 1000 593.9 5.7 2,505.9 5.3
Available seat 1,180.8 3.2 5,215.3 3.4
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 896.8 4.4 3,914.1 2.9
kilometres mill
Passenger load 75.9 0.9,p 75.0 -0.3,p
factor %
North Atlantic
Passengers 1000 26.0 71.2 111.6 21.9
Available seat 251.9 116.7 1,047.6 28.9
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 184.8 83.7 814.9 25.0
kilometres mill
Passenger load 73.4 -13.2,p 77.8 -2.4,p
factor %
Asia
Passengers 1000 134.4 5.5 698.2 3.3
Available seat 1,421.2 12.1 6,690.4 4.7
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 1,010.7 6.2 5,277.5 4.2
kilometres mill
Passenger load 71.1 -4.0,p 78.9 -0.4,p
factor %
Domestic
Passengers 1000 168.9 4.7 955.8 17.7
Available seat 122.3 3.8 724.3 17.7
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 77.1 6.0 500.7 17.1
kilometres mill
Passenger load 63.0 1.3,p 69.1 -0.3,p
factor %
Cargo Traffic
Cargo scheduled 11,036.5 21.7 50,651.6 13.9
traffic total tonnes
Europe tonnes 2,379.0 33.3 10,083.8 17.5
North Atlantic 836.9 67.4 3,555.8 12.5
tonnes
Asia tonnes 7,672.4 15.5 36,251.2 13.3
Domestic tonnes 148.2 9.3 760.7 8.4
Cargo flights, 1,405.1 13.7 7,491.8 15.0
tonnes**
Cargo tonnes total 12,441.6 20.8 58,143.4 14.1
Available tonne 130.0 13.5 597.6 6.6
kilometres* mill
Revenue tonne 73.8 20.4 349.4 15.3
kilometres mill
Available 121.8 13.8 557.8 6.8
sched.cargo tonne
kms*, mill.
Revenue 67.4 21.3 311.4 14.4
sched.cargo tonne
kms, mill.
Cargo load factor* 56.8 3.2,p 58.5 4.4,p
%
- North-Atlantic 40.0 -4.1,p 42.0 -0.5,p
cargo load factor* %
- Asia cargo load 59.8 4.9,p 60.0 4.9,p
factor* %
Scheduled traffic 55.3 3.5,p 55.8 3.7,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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