Air Berlin increases revenue in July

With 6.20 Eurocents, revenue per available seat kilometer was 5.9 percent higher than that of the corresponding month of the previous year (July 2008: 5.86 Eurocents). At 83.4 percent, fleet capacity utilization remained approximately at the previous year's level (+ 0.1 percentage points). Due to a targeted capacity reduction of 3.4 percent, the number of passengers transported in July 2009 declined by 3.3 percent to 2,811,025 (July 2008: 2,908,018).

For the period from January to July 2009, a total of 15,525,847 passengers traveled on Air Berlin's flight routes, i.e. a decline of 5.3 percent in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year (January-July 2008: 16,403,054). This decline is in part due to the accumulated capacity decreasing by 3 percent during the first seven months of the year. For the same time period, fleet capacity utilization decreased from 78.1 to 76.3 percent (-1.8 per-centage points).

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 7-Aug-09