Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 14.2% compared to April last year. In
April particularly, the growth was driven by European traffic, where the amount
of revenue passenger kilometers increased by 20.2 per cent compared to April
last year. The demand was positively influenced by new openings in Europe:
Bucharest, Gdansk, Nuremberg, Lisbon and Ljubljana.
Asian traffic has increased during the early part of the year by over 30 per
cent compared to the previous year. In April, the growth increased by 18.2 per
cent due to heavy maintenance of long-haul fleet. May figures are also affected
by heavy maintenance. Estimated growth in Asian traffic for the whole year
remains in 30 per cent.
Thanks to 76-100-seater Embraer planes, capacity on domestic routes have been
allocated more precisely than before. This has been seen as capacity cuts and
improved passenger load factor, which rose 1.5 p.u. to 62.1 per cent. Passenger
load factor in Finnair scheduled traffic was on the previous year's level
73.8 per cent. Also the number of passengers carried was on the same level as
year before 656 030. The average span of the trips was expanded.
Finnair traffic, measured in passenger kilometers for all airlines of the Group,
increased by 9.3% in April, while the capacity was up by 10.1%, resulting in a
passenger load factor of 74.7%, 0.6 points lower than last year. All Finnair
Group airlines altogether transported 728 946 passengers.
Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS, carried 30 810 passengers (- 54.8%)
on routes between Helsinki and the Baltic capitals and within Southern Finland,
during April. Stockholm-based FlyNordic carried 85 915 passengers (- 14.0%).
Aero and FlyNordic figures are respectively included in Finnair Group total
figures.
Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights was 86.4% (based on a fifteen minute
standard), 1.1 points lower than in January 2006. Including leisure flights
arrival punctuality was 85.6% (-0.5 p.p). Punctuality has improved significantly
since beginning of the year.
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres
increased by 14.2%. The change in capacity was 14.3%. Passenger load factor was
73.8%, 0.1 percentage points lower than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 8.3%.
Capacity in ASKs was 19.1%, while RPKs increased by 17.8%.
In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 19.9%, and as RPKs increased by
20.2%, the passenger load factor was 69.4%, up 0.2 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity increased by 2.6%. Change in RPKs
was - 1.1%, and passenger load factor for April was 83.0%, 3.1 points lower than
previous year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 20.6%. The passenger traffic
was up by 18.2%. Passenger load factor was 80.4%, 1.6 percentage points down.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 17.1% on a capacity decrease of 19.2%.
Passenger load factor increased by 1.5 percentage points to 62.1%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic decreased in April by 6.5%, and RPKs decreased by 8.6%,
resulting in a passenger load factor of 79.1%, 1.9 points lower than last year.
Cargo
Cargo traffic decreased by 3.2% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in
scheduled traffic was 2.1%. Increase in Asian traffic was 16.9%. Volume in
European traffic decreased by 21.5%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume
increased by 2.6%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by
35.4%. The cargo load factor was 49.1%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern
traffic was 64.0% and in the North Atlantic traffic 79.8%. Cargo traffic suffers
from imbalance in demand between Europe and Asia. The demand is healthy from
Asia to Europe, but over-capacity in the Scandinavian market has pressed cargo
load factor in Europe-Asia traffic.
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| | Apr07 | %-CHANG | Jan07-Apr0 | %-CHANGE |
| | | E | 7 | |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 728,9 | -1,4 | 2 919,4 | 1,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 980,8 | 10,1 | 8 578,6 | 9,7 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 480,2 | 9,3 | 6 483,1 | 10,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 74,7 | -0,6 p | 75,6 | 0,8 p |
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| Cargo tonnes toatal | 7 630,4 | -3,2 | 29 341,9 | -0,3 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres | 292,4 | 8,3 | 1 268,4 | 10,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 175,2 | 8,7 | 739,4 | 10,0 |
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| Overall load factor % | 59,9 | 0,2 p | 58,3 | -0,4 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 656,0 | -0,2 | 2 558,2 | 2,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 642,5 | 14,3 | 6 624,7 | 14,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 212,4 | 14,2 | 4 730,8 | 17,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 73,8 | -0,1 p | 71,4 | 1,9 p |
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| EUROPE | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 407,9 | 7,3 | 1 470,7 | 6,0 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 768,7 | 19,9 | 2 745,9 | 9,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 533,8 | 20,2 | 1 786,9 | 12,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 69,4 | 0,2 p | 65,1 | 1,9 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 10,2 | -1,1 | 37,5 | -4,6 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 81,3 | 2,6 | 308,6 | -6,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 67,5 | -1,1 | 247,8 | -4,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 83,0 | -3,1 p | 80,3 | 1,7 p |
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| ASIA | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 77,5 | 15,0 | 334,9 | 26,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 648,3 | 20,6 | 2 929,5 | 32,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 521,5 | 18,2 | 2 305,6 | 31,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 80,4 | -1,6 p | 78,7 | -0,7 p |
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| DOMESTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 160,4 | -19,7 | 715,1 | -11,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 144,2 | -19,2 | 640,6 | -13,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill | 89,6 | -17,1 | 390,5 | -8,4 |
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| Passenger load factor % | 62,1 | 1,5 p | 61,0 | 3,6 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 72,9 | -10,9 | 361,2 | -4,9 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 338,3 | -6,5 | 1 954,0 | -3,7 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 267,7 | -8,6 | 1 752,3 | -3,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 79,1 | -1,9 p | 89,7 | -0,2 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total | 6 864,5 | 2,1 | 26 571,7 | 4,2 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Europe tonnes | 1 687,6 | -21,5 | 6 821,4 | -15,4 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes | 560,0 | 2,6 | 2 106,0 | -7,6 |
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| Asia tonnes | 4 351,8 | 16,9 | 16 448,9 | 18,9 |
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| Domestic tonnes | 265,1 | -12,7 | 1 195,5 | -10,1 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 34,8 | 19,2 | 153,6 | 8,1 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter | 731,1 | -35,4 | 2 616,6 | -31,0 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 7 630,4 | -3,2 | 29 341,9 | -0,3 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres* | 86,9 | 36,9 | 366,7 | 43,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 42,8 | 5,5 | 159,2 | 5,8 |
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| Cargo load factor* % | 49,3 | -14,7 p | 43,4 | -15,6 p |
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p= percentage points
Definitions to the terms used:
Change % refers to the change of the figures of the previous year
Revenue passenger kilometres: Number of revenue passengers carried,multiplied by
kilometres flown.
Available passenger kilometres: Total number of seats available, multiplied by
the number of kilometres flown.
Available tonne kilometres: Number of tonnes of capacity for carriage of
passengers, cargo and mail, multiplies by kilometres flown.
Cabin factor: Share of revenue passenger kilometres of available passenger
kilometres.
Overall load factor: Share of revenue tonne kilometres of available tonne
kilometres.
Next release on traffic statistics will be released on June 7, 2007.
Finnair Oyj
Communications
May 8, 2006
Taneli Hassinen
Director, Investor Relations
Tel. +358 9 818 4976
For further information please contact:
Mr. Lasse Heinonen, SVP & CFO, tel. 09 818 4950
Mr. Christer Haglund, SVP Corporate Communications, tel. 09 818 4007
Mr. Petteri Kostermaa, VP Traffic Planning, tel. +358 9 818 8504
Mr. Timo Riihimäki, VP, Cargo, tel. +358 9 818 5487
