Icelandair carried over 218 thousand passengers on scheduled flights in July. This is the highest number of passengers that Icelandair has carried in one month in its seventy year history. Number of passengers grew by 5% from July 2006, being 207 thousand at that time. Available seats at Icelandair in July measured in seat kilometers was increased by 5% from last year and the load factor in the month was 82,5% In the first seven months of the year 2007, the number of passengers at Icelandair grew by 3% from last year and was 910 thousand. The load factor for this period was 74,5% and decreased by 3,0 percentage points between years. We increased our capacity-availability considerably this summer, added new destinations and started morning flight from Iceland to the United States for the first time” says Jón Karl Ólafsson the CEO of Icelandair. We are seeing more passengers than ever before, and considerable increase of passengers from Iceland and to Iceland, however a decrease on the via market, between the US and Europe with a stopover in Iceland” says Jón Karl.
- Highest number of passengers in one month in the history of Icelandair
| Source: Icelandair Group hf.