Airline Code [FIN]
View More Finnair News
Tags :Continental Europe, Finnair
Finnair's Scheduled Traffic load factor rose in February by 2.4 percentage points to 70.2%. The rise in passenger load factor was due to cuts in capacity.
At the beginning of February, traffic growth figures were still fairly strong, but they weakened towards the end of the month. The weakening of demand was partly due to the pilots' threatened strike scheduled for the last week of February. The average price was clearly below last year's level, because business travel continues to fall, says Finnair SVP Communications Christer Haglund.
European traffic capacity was reduced by 12.4% and domestic traffic was cut by 14.9%. Measured in revenue passenger kilometres, European traffic declined in February by 8.2% and domestic traffic by 14.4%.
In Asian traffic, flights to Guangzhou were discontinued last year and a new route to Seoul opened, resulting in a decline in Asian traffic capacity by 0.1%. Asian traffic growth was 4.4%, however, which improved the Asian traffic passenger load factor.
In North American traffic, an increase in flights to New York raised capacity by 29.4%. North American traffic grew by 32.7%.
Leisure Traffic growth continued. In February traffic grew 10.2%, capacity increased by 11.0% and load factor was 94.3%. Leisure Traffic growth comes mainly from flights by an Airbus A330 aircraft, leased for the winter season from Air Europa.
Cargo Traffic, on the other hand, continues to decline. The amount of cargo carried fell by 21%. In North American traffic, the amount of cargo grew by 9% as a result of an increase in flights on the New York route.
Of Finnair's flights, 84.3% arrived on schedule, which represents an improvement of 18.8 percentage points from last year. The scheduled passenger traffic punctuality percentage rose from February last year by 18.8 percentage points to 87.5%.
Finnair traffic
Finnair traffic altogether increased by 2.5%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 0.7%. Passenger load factor was 2.4 percentage points higher than year before, 77.2%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 7.9% and was 597 029.
Scheduled traffic
Scheduled traffic decreased by 1.3%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 4.8%. Passenger load factor was 2.4 percentage points higher than year before, 70.2%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 10.6% and was 479 545.
Scheduled international traffic remained the same, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 3.8%. Passenger load factor was 2.7 percentage points higher than year before, 71.2%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 8.1% and was 352 978.
European scheduled traffic, decreased by 11.8%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 12.4%. Passenger load factor was 0.4 percentage points higher than year before, 60.6%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 13.4% and was 245 631.
North Atlantic scheduled traffic increased by 32.7%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity increased by 29.4%. Passenger load factor was 1.9 percentage points higher than year before, 78.0%. Number of passengers carried increased by 32.7% and was 9 681.
Asian scheduled traffic increased by 4.4%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 0.1%. Passenger load factor was 3.3 percentage points lower than year before, 77.1%. Number of passengers carried increased by 4.8% and was 97 666.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 17.7%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 14.9%. Passenger load factor was 2.0 percentage points lower than year before, 58.1%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 16.9% and was 126 567.
Leisure traffic
Leisure traffic increased by 10.2%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity increased by 11.0%. Passenger load factor was 0.7 percentage points lower than year before, 94.3%. Number of passengers carried increased by 5.3% and was 117 484.
Cargo
Cargo traffic decreased by 21.0% in terms of cargo tonnes carried.
Decrease in scheduled traffic was 20.0%. Cargo traffic decreased by 23.3% in Asian traffic, by 20.3% in European traffic and increased by 9.0% in
North-Atlantic traffic.
Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by 69.8%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern traffic was 55.5% and in the North Atlantic traffic 69.3%.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 10-Mar-09 |
Finnair reports Feb-09 traffic 
