In July, Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 24.9% compared to July last
year. Demand increased up to 30 percent in both Asian and European traffic. The
growth was partly generated with new long-haul aircraft. Domestic traffic was
adjusted to lower demand during the mid-summer by 27 percent, which improved
passenger load factor by a sturdy five percent to 72.3 percent. New route
openings pressed passenger load factors in other traffic categories Total
passenger load factor in scheduled traffic was 79.1%, down 1.0 percentage
points. Number of passengers carried was 589 776, up 13.3%.
Finnair traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, increased by 16.5% in July,
while the capacity was up by 20.2%, resulting in a passenger load factor of
79.7% or 2.5 points lower than last year. Finnair Group airlines altogether
transported 706 808 passengers, which is 7.8% more than a year ago.
Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS, carried 20 218 passengers (- 62.5%)
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 not 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 78.4% (based on a fifteen minute
standard), 3.0 points lower than in January 2006. Including leisure flights
arrival punctuality was 76.6% (-3.1 p.p).
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres
increased by 24.9%. The change in capacity was 26.4%. Passenger load factor was
79.1%, 1.0 percentage points lower than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 24.5%.
Capacity in ASKs was 29.2%, while RPKs increased by 27.0%.
In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 32.6%, and as RPKs increased by
29.0%, the passenger load factor was 77.9%, down 2.2 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity decreased by 0.5%. Change in RPKs
was -5.4%, and passenger load factor for July was 83.7%, 4.3 points lower than
previous year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 31.1%. The passenger traffic
was up by 30.7%. Passenger load factor was 79.9%, 0.3 percentage points down.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 21.6% on a capacity decrease of 27.0%.
Passenger load factor increased by 5.0 percentage points to 72.3%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic decreased in July by 2.5%, and RPKs were down by 10.5%,
because of added flight capacity to the Finnish market by tour operators.
Passenger load factor in leisure traffic was 82.6%, 7.4 points lower than last
year due to lower load factor on North American leisure routes and lower demand
to European leisure destinations.
Cargo
Cargo traffic increased by 7.2% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in
scheduled traffic was 10.4%. Increase in Asian traffic was 16.6%. Volume in
European traffic increased by 10.4%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume
decreased by 16.3%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased
by 41.8%. The cargo load factor was 33.8 %. The cargo load factor in the Far
Eastern traffic was 37.6 % and in the North Atlantic traffic 70.1 %
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| | Jul07 | %-CHANG | Jan07-Jul0 | %- |
| | | E | 7 | CHANGE |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 706,8 | 7,8 | 5 255,9 | 3,0 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 2 311,9 | 20,2 | 15 371,1 | 13,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 843,1 | 16,5 | 11 667,2 | 13,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 79,7 | -2,5 p | 75,9 | -0,2 p |
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| Cargo tonnes toatal | 8 104,0 | 7,2 | 53 304,3 | 1,5 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres | 359,9 | 18,6 | 2 307,1 | 13,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 211,1 | 13,6 | 1 338,0 | 11,8 |
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| Overall load factor % | 58,7 | -2,6 p | 58,0 | -0,8 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 589,8 | 13,3 | 4 567,0 | 4,8 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 906,3 | 26,4 | 12 297,4 | 18,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 508,1 | 24,9 | 8 993,3 | 20,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 79,1 | -1,0 p | 73,1 | 1,0 p |
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| EUROPE | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 395,6 | 25,6 | 2 838,8 | 11,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 735,4 | 32,6 | 5 228,7 | 17,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 573,0 | 29,0 | 3 621,7 | 20,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 77,9 | -2,2 p | 69,3 | 1,5 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 14,2 | -5,3 | 77,2 | -6,2 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 111,7 | -0,5 | 628,9 | -3,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 93,5 | -5,4 | 509,5 | -6,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 83,7 | -4,3 p | 81,0 | -2,3 p |
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| ASIA | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 111,8 | 25,5 | 614,6 | 24,6 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 004,2 | 31,1 | 5 545,8 | 32,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 801,9 | 30,7 | 4 311,0 | 30,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 79,9 | -0,3 p | 77,7 | -1,1 p |
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| DOMESTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 68,2 | -32,8 | 1 036,4 | -15,6 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 55,0 | -27,0 | 894,1 | -17,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill | 39,8 | -21,6 | 551,2 | -11,1 |
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| Passenger load factor % | 72,3 | 5,0 p | 61,6 | 4,4 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 117,0 | -13,5 | 688,8 | -7,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 405,6 | -2,5 | 3 073,7 | -3,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 334,9 | -10,5 | 2 673,9 | -5,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 82,6 | -7,4 p | 87,0 | -2,0 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total | 7 756,6 | 10,4 | 48 766,1 | 5,1 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Europe tonnes | 1 744,1 | 10,4 | 12 145,7 | -11,4 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes | 699,2 | -16,3 | 3 985,3 | -14,3 |
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| Asia tonnes | 5 096,4 | 16,6 | 30 683,5 | 18,9 |
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| Domestic tonnes | 217,0 | -9,4 | 1 951,5 | -12,4 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 48,2 | 105,0 | 272,1 | 28,0 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter | 299,2 | -41,8 | 4 266,2 | -27,8 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 8 104,0 | 7,2 | 53 304,3 | 1,5 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres* | 136,1 | 52,9 | 718,4 | 47,7 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 46,0 | 4,2 | 293,7 | 6,3 |
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| Cargo load factor* % | 33,8 | -15,8 p | 40,9 | -15,9 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 September 7, 2007.
Finnair Oyj
Communications
August 7, 2007
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
