Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 34.3% compared to October last year.
Asian traffic grew by 41.3% and passenger load factor was 7.5% higher than last
year, on 81.6%. Passenger load factor in scheduled passenger traffic was 74.8%,
up 5.1 percentage points. Number of passengers carried was 608 331, up 21.6%.
Comparison figures from October 2006 were up to certain extent affected by a
cabin personnel's two-day strike.
Finnair total traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, increased by 26.2% in
October, while the capacity was up by 19.9%, resulting in a passenger load
factor of 76.5% or 3.8 points higher than last year. All Finnair Group airlines
altogether transported 717 762 passengers, which is 17.9% more than a year ago.
Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS, carried 25 120 passengers (- 51.5%)
on routes between Helsinki and the Baltic capitals and within Southern Finland.
Aero figures are respectively included in Finnair Group total figures. At the
end of June, Finnair sold its Stockholm-based subsidiary airline FlyNordic and
its traffic performance is no longer reported as part of Finnair Group
statistics. For better comparison, equivalent figures for last year have been
adjusted accordingly.
Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights was 84.1% (based on a fifteen minute
standard), on the same level as in October 2006. Including leisure flights
arrival punctuality was 82.4% (0.5 p.p).
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres
increased by 34.3%. The change in capacity was 25.2%. Passenger load factor was
74.8%, 5.1 percentage points higher than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 31.1%.
Capacity in ASKs was 28.0%, while RPKs increased by 36.3%.
In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 35.2%, and as RPKs increased by
36.7%, the passenger load factor was 67.0%, up 0.7 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity decreased by 11.2%. Change in RPKs
was +3.0%, and passenger load factor for October was 91.7%, 12.7 points higher
than previous year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 28.3%. The passenger traffic
was up by 41.3%. Passenger load factor was 81.6%, 7.5 percentage points up.
Domestic scheduled traffic increased by 4.3% on a capacity decrease of 4.7%.
Passenger load factor increased by 4.9 percentage points to 56.7%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic increased in October by 2.1%, and RPKs increased by
3.0%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 83.2%, 0.7 points higher than
last year.
Cargo
Cargo traffic increased by 13.1% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in
scheduled traffic was 24.6%. Increase in Asian traffic was 37.9%. Volume in
European traffic increased by 13.9%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume
decreased by 7.8%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by
64.6%. The cargo load factor was 67.9%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern
traffic was 77.7% and in the North Atlantic traffic 83.3%.
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| | Oct07 | %-CHANG | Jan07-Oct0 | %- |
| | | E | 7 | CHANGE |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 717,8 | 17,9 | 7 422,2 | 5,2 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 2 294,2 | 19,9 | 22 272,1 | 15,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 754,4 | 26,2 | 16 925,3 | 15,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 76,5 | 3,8 p | 76,0 | 0,2 p |
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| Cargo tonnes toatal | 9 293,7 | 13,1 | 80 419,1 | 3,6 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres | 348,9 | 16,4 | 3 372,9 | 14,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 208,4 | 23,2 | 1 959,9 | 13,8 |
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| Overall load factor % | 59,7 | 3,3 p | 58,1 | -0,3 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 608,3 | 21,6 | 6 423,4 | 7,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 846,8 | 25,2 | 18 057,4 | 20,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 382,0 | 34,3 | 13 333,5 | 22,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 74,8 | 5,1 p | 73,8 | 1,3 p |
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| EUROPE | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 351,2 | 30,4 | 3 932,4 | 14,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 720,7 | 35,2 | 7 436,7 | 21,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 483,0 | 36,7 | 5 129,4 | 22,7 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 67,0 | 0,7 p | 69,0 | 0,8 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 12,9 | 3,0 | 121,0 | -3,8 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 93,1 | -11,2 | 949,1 | -3,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 85,4 | 3,0 | 798,7 | -3,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 91,7 | 12,7 p | 84,2 | -0,2 p |
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| ASIA | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 105,2 | 38,0 | 942,9 | 27,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 916,7 | 28,3 | 8 448,5 | 31,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 747,6 | 41,3 | 6 659,6 | 32,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 81,6 | 7,5 p | 78,8 | 0,4 p |
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| DOMESTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 139,0 | -2,3 | 1 427,1 | -14,9 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 116,3 | -4,7 | 1 223,1 | -16,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill | 66,0 | 4,3 | 745,8 | -10,0 |
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| Passenger load factor % | 56,7 | 4,9 p | 61,0 | 4,2 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 109,4 | 0,9 | 998,8 | -6,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 447,4 | 2,1 | 4 214,7 | -2,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 372,4 | 3,0 | 3 591,8 | -4,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 83,2 | 0,7 p | 85,2 | -2,1 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total | 8 892,0 | 24,6 | 74 757,1 | 8,9 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Europe tonnes | 2 141,8 | 13,9 | 18 227,2 | -5,2 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes | 692,1 | -7,8 | 6 277,7 | -9,9 |
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| Asia tonnes | 5 762,3 | 37,9 | 47 458,4 | 20,9 |
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| Domestic tonnes | 295,8 | -9,6 | 2 793,7 | -13,1 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 31,9 | -13,6 | 383,4 | 33,1 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter | 369,8 | -64,6 | 5 278,6 | -39,4 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 9 293,7 | 13,1 | 80 419,1 | 3,6 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres* | 75,6 | 7,8 | 730,9 | 12,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 51,3 | 14,9 | 444,7 | 7,8 |
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| Cargo load factor* % | 67,9 | 4,2 p | 60,8 | -2,5 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 December 11, 2007.
Finnair Oyj
Communications
November 07, 2007
Taneli Hassinen
Director, Investor Relations
Tel. +358 9 818 4976
For further information please contact:
Mr Christer Haglund, SVP Corporate Communications, tel +358 9 818 4007
Mr Petteri Kostermaa, VP Traffic Planning, tel. +358 9 818 8504
