Number of passengers on Finnair's Asian flights in January-November was
1,035,900, as the number last year was slightly over 800 000. Growth was 28.1%.
Measured in passenger kilometres, Finnair's Asian traffic grew by 46.1% in
November. Passenger load factor increased 3.8 percentage points, and was 75.9%.
Finnair's entire scheduled traffic increased by 27.3% compared to November last
year. Passenger load factor was 67.7%, up 2.5 percentage points. Number of
passengers carried was 529 000, up 5.7%.
Finnair's total traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, increased by 22.0% in
November, while the capacity was up by 18.8%, resulting in a passenger load
factor of 71.4% or 1.9 points higher than last year. All Finnair Group airlines
transported 619 630 passengers, which is 6.3% more than a year ago. In
January-November, Finnair carried over eight million passengers.
Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS, carried 21 035 passengers (-62.2%)
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 76.5% (based on a fifteen minute
standard), 1.6 points lower than in January 2006. Including leisure flights
arrival punctuality was 74.3% (-1.7 p.p).
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres
increased by 27.3%. The change in capacity was 22.5%. Passenger load factor was
67.7%, 2.5 percentage points higher than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 18.8%.
Capacity in ASKs was 27.1%, while RPKs increased by 31.3%.
In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 18.3%, and as RPKs increased by
14.5%, the passenger load factor was 57.6%, down 1.9 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity decreased by 5.1%. Change in RPKs
was 5.7%, and passenger load factor for November was 78.6%, 8.1 points higher
than previous year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 38.7%. The passenger traffic
was up by 46.1%. Passenger load factor was 75.9%, 3.8 percentage points up.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 12.5% on a capacity decrease of 14.6%.
Passenger load factor increased by 1.3 percentage points to 55.4%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic increased in November by 7.9%, and RPKs increased by
10.0%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 83.5%, 1.6 points higher than
last year.
Cargo
Cargo traffic increased by 12.0% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in
scheduled traffic was 22.9%. Increase in Asian traffic was 39.1%. Volume in
European traffic increased by 6.3%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume
decreased by 10.2%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights cut by
64.9% due to discontinuation of a weekly New York cargo route. The cargo load
factor was 60.4%. The cargo load factor in the Asian traffic was 83.7% and in
the North Atlantic traffic 86.6%.
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| | Nov07 | %-CHANG | Jan07-Nov0 | %- |
| | | E | 7 | CHANGE |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 619,6 | 6,3 | 8 041,8 | 5,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 2 240,7 | 18,8 | 24 512,7 | 15,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 600,5 | 22,0 | 18 525,8 | 16,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 71,4 | 1,9 p | 75,6 | 0,3 p |
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| Cargo tonnes toatal | 9 480,1 | 12,0 | 89 899,1 | 4,4 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres | 343,4 | 20,0 | 3 716,3 | 14,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 196,3 | 21,0 | 2 156,2 | 14,4 |
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| Overall load factor % | 57,2 | 0,5 p | 58,0 | -0,3 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 529,0 | 5,7 | 6 952,4 | 7,2 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 1 716,5 | 22,5 | 19 773,9 | 20,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 1 162,7 | 27,3 | 14 496,2 | 22,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 67,7 | 2,5 p | 73,3 | 1,4 p |
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| EUROPE | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 283,4 | 13,8 | 4 215,8 | 14,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 628,3 | 18,3 | 8 065,0 | 20,9 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 362,0 | 14,5 | 5 491,4 | 22,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 57,6 | -1,9 p | 68,1 | 0,6 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 9,3 | 5,8 | 130,3 | -3,2 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 78,2 | -5,1 | 1 027,3 | -3,7 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 61,4 | 5,7 | 860,2 | -3,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 78,6 | 8,1 p | 83,7 | 0,4 p |
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| ASIA | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 93,0 | 39,1 | 1 035,9 | 28,1 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 878,1 | 38,7 | 9 326,6 | 32,1 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 666,1 | 46,1 | 7 325,7 | 33,2 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 75,9 | 3,8 p | 78,5 | 0,7 p |
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| DOMESTIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 143,3 | -18,5 | 1 570,4 | -15,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 131,9 | -14,6 | 1 355,1 | -16,0 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill | 73,1 | -12,5 | 819,0 | -10,2 |
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| Passenger load factor % | 55,4 | 1,3 p | 60,4 | 3,9 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Passengers 1000 | 90,6 | 9,9 | 1 089,4 | -5,3 |
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| Available seat-kilometres | 524,2 | 7,9 | 4 738,9 | -1,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres | 437,7 | 10,0 | 4 029,5 | -3,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Passenger load factor % | 83,5 | 1,6 p | 85,0 | -1,8 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC | | | | |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total | 9 074,2 | 22,9 | 83 831,2 | 10,3 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Europe tonnes | 2 170,9 | 6,3 | 20 398,1 | -4,1 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes | 604,1 | -10,2 | 6 881,8 | -9,9 |
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| Asia tonnes | 5 995,9 | 39,1 | 53 454,3 | 22,7 |
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| Domestic tonnes | 303,3 | -14,8 | 3 097,0 | -13,3 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 38,3 | 0,5 | 421,8 | 29,3 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter | 367,6 | -64,9 | 5 646,2 | -42,2 |
| tonnes | | | | |
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| Cargo tonnes total | 9 480,1 | 12,0 | 89 899,1 | 4,4 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres* | 138,2 | 117,5 | 869,1 | 21,5 |
| mill | | | | |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 52,9 | 18,1 | 497,5 | 8,8 |
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| Cargo load factor* % | 38,3 | -32,2 p | 57,2 | -6,7 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 January 8, 2008.
Finnair Oyj
Communications
December 11, 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
Mr. Timo Riihimäki, VP, Cargo, tel. +358 9 818 5487
