FINNAIR OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 10 NOVEMBER 2008 AT 09:00
Finnair's Asian traffic grew 18.1% compared to October of the previous year.
Number of passengers carried on Finnair's Asian flights in October was 124 289,
which is 18.1% more than a year ago. Finnair increased its capacity and
succeeded to fill the aircraft in a quiet market situation, but due to the
world's financial crisis the amount of business travel decreased. Compared to
last year Finnair has opened a new Asian destinations, Soul, in June.
Finnair traffic altogether increased by 11.7% in October, while the capacity was
up by 9.2%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 78.2% or 1.7 points higher
than last year. Finnair transported altogether 751 916 passengers, which is 4.8%
more than a year ago.
Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 12.6% compared to October last year.
Number of passengers carried on scheduled flights was 630 908, which is 3.7%
more than in 2007. Passenger load factor in scheduled passenger traffic was
76.8%, 1.9 percentage points higher than last year. RPKs in European traffic
increased by 5.9% and passenger load factor increased by 1.1 percentage points
to 68.2%.
Leisure flights' passenger load factor increased by 1.0 percentage points to
84.2% compared to the previous year.
Arrival punctuality of Finnair flights was 85.4%, which is 3.0 percentage points
higher than in October 2007. Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights went up
3.0 points and was 87.1%
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres
increased by 12.6%. The change in capacity was 9.8%. Passenger load factor was
76.8%, 1.9 percentage points higher than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 8.8%.
Capacity in ASKs was 11.4%, while RPKs increased by 13.8%.
In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 4.1%, and as RPKs increased by
5.9%, the passenger load factor was 68.2%, up 1.1 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity increased by 20.0%. Change in RPKs
was 20.1%, and passenger load factor for was 91.8%, 0.1 points higher than
previous year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 16.2%. The passenger traffic
was up by 18.1%. Passenger load factor was 82.9%, 1.3 percentage points up.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 9.6% on a capacity decrease of 13.8%.
Passenger load factor increased by 2.8 percentage points to 59.5%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic increased in October by 6.8%, and RPKs increased by
8.0%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 84.2%, 1.0 points higher than last
year.
Cargo
Cargo traffic decreased by 4.5% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Decrease in
scheduled traffic was 2.7%. Increase in Asian traffic was 1.1%. Volume in
European traffic decreased by 17.4%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume
increased by 9.6%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by
58.9%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern traffic was 69.4% and in the
North Atlantic traffic 76.1%.
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| | Oct08 | %-CHANG | Jan08-Oct0 | %- |
| | | E | 8 | CHANGE |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 751,9 | 4,8 | 7 000,1 | 2,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 2 505,4 | 9,2 | 24 207,5 | 12,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 958,9 | 11,7 | 18 183,2 | 10,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 78,2 | 1,7 p | 75,1 | -1,2 p |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 8 879,2 | -4,5 | 87 103,9 | 8,3 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres | 388,5 | 11,4 | 3 745,9 | 13,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 226,2 | 8,5 | 2 127,6 | 10,9 |
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| Overall load factor % | 58,2 | -1,5 p | 56,8 | -1,4 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 630,9 | 3,7 | 5 898,2 | 0,7 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 2 027,7 | 9,8 | 19 618,0 | 13,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 556,7 | 12,6 | 14 133,2 | 9,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 76,8 | 1,9 p | 72,0 | -2,1 p |
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| EUROPE | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 370,9 | 5,6 | 3 458,7 | 2,7 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 750,4 | 4,1 | 7 163,0 | 6,3 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 511,5 | 5,9 | 4 770,0 | 2,4 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 68,2 | 1,1 p | 66,6 | -2,6 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 15,5 | 20,1 | 129,5 | 7,0 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 111,7 | 20,0 | 1 007,2 | 6,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 102,5 | 20,1 | 854,7 | 7,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 91,8 | 0,1 p | 84,9 | 0,7 p |
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| ASIA | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 124,3 | 18,1 | 1 088,8 | 15,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 065,3 | 16,2 | 10 292,9 | 21,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 883,0 | 18,1 | 7 824,7 | 17,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 82,9 | 1,3 p | 76,0 | -2,8 p |
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| DOMESTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 120,2 | -13,5 | 1 221,3 | -14,4 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 100,3 | -13,8 | 1 154,9 | -5,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill | 59,6 | -9,6 | 683,9 | -8,3 |
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| Passenger load factor % | 59,5 | 2,8 p | 59,2 | -1,8 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 121,0 | 10,6 | 1 102,0 | 10,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 477,7 | 6,8 | 4 589,5 | 8,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 402,2 | 8,0 | 4 049,9 | 12,8 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 84,2 | 1,0 p | 88,2 | 3,0 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total | 8 655,5 | -2,7 | 84 315,8 | 12,8 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Europe tonnes | 1 769,1 | -17,4 | 17 452,5 | -4,3 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes | 758,5 | 9,6 | 6 303,0 | 0,4 |
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| Asia tonnes | 5 826,1 | 1,1 | 57 954,5 | 22,1 |
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| Domestic tonnes | 301,8 | 2,0 | 2 605,9 | -6,7 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 71,7 | 124,8 | 352,6 | -8,1 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter | 152,1 | -58,9 | 2 435,5 | -53,9 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 8 879,2 | -4,5 | 87 103,9 | 8,3 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres* | 81,5 | 7,8 | 808,1 | 10,6 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 50,6 | -1,3 | 498,6 | 12,1 |
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| Cargo load factor* % | 62,1 | -5,8 p | 61,7 | 0,9 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 December 9, 2008.
Finnair Oyj
Communications
November 10, 2008
Taneli Hassinen
VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations
Tel. +358 9 818 4976
For further information please contact:
Mr. Christer Haglund, SVP Corporate Communications, tel. +358 9 818 4007
Mr. Taneli Hassinen, VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations, tel.
+358 9 818 4976
Mr. Petteri Kostermaa, VP Traffic Planning, tel. +358 9 818 8504
Mr. Timo Riihimäki, Vice President, Cargo, tel. +358 9 818 5487