Finnair Plc. Stock Exchange Release 9 April 2015 at 09:00 EET
In March, Finnair's overall capacity grew by 3.8 per cent and traffic measured
in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 3.5 per cent year‐on‐year. Passenger
load factor was 78.9 per cent.
The capacity in Asian traffic decreased by 0.8 per cent and the traffic measured
in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 1.5 per cent year‐on‐year.
The capacity in European traffic grew by 8.9 per cent and traffic measured in
Revenue Passenger Kilometres by 4.2 per cent year‐on‐year.
In January-March, the passenger unit revenue* per available seat kilometre was
flat year‐on‐year and totalled 5.14 euro cents.
“In the first quarter of 2015, the passenger unit revenues developed favourably
in all traffic areas apart from European traffic. However, the negative unit
revenue development in Europe held the overall passenger unit revenue at last
year’s level,” says Finnair CFO Mika Stirkkinen.
In cargo, traffic measured in revenue tonne kilometres decreased by 17.9 per
cent and the overall capacity by 0.1 per cent year‐on‐year. The load factor fell
by 12.3 percentage points year-on-year and was 56.6 per cent.
In March, 90.3 per cent of all Finnair flights arrived on schedule (90.2).
Traffic statistics for April are published on Monday, 11 May 2015.
*Unit revenue = Ticket revenue/ASK.
Finnair Traffic Performance March 2015
March 2015 %-Change Year-to date 2015 %-Change
Total Traffic
Passengers 1000 850,4 4,3 2 283,3 3,1
Available seat 2 698,5 3,8 7 714,5 3,1
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 2 128,1 3,5 6 022,3 2,3
kilometres mill
Passenger load 78,9 -0,2 p 78,1 -0,6 p
factor %
Cargo tonnes total 11 298,7 -16,0 30 429,7 -13,6
Available tonne 395,3 0,7 1 133,5 0,0
kilometres mill
Revenue tonne 257,0 -3,1 719,2 -2,5
-kilometres mill
Overall load 65,0 -2,5 p 63,5 -1,6 p
factor %
Europe
Passengers 1000 488,2 6,2 1 304,6 5,4
Available seat 1 023,9 8,9 2 853,0 5,8
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 797,0 4,2 2 142,4 3,2
kilometres mill
Passenger load 77,8 -3,5 p 75,1 -1,9 p
factor %
North Atlantic
Passengers 1000 19,5 17,5 62,7 7,3
Available seat 179,8 18,6 585,8 11,3
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 139,2 20,1 460,7 7,5
kilometres mill
Passenger load 77,5 0,9 p 78,7 -2,8 p
factor %
Asia
Passengers 1000 144,2 2,6 419,3 2,3
Available seat 1 341,6 -0,8 3 887,2 1,1
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 1 079,9 1,5 3 141,9 1,2
kilometres mill
Passenger load 80,5 1,9 p 80,8 0,1 p
factor %
Domestic
Passengers 1000 198,5 -0,1 496,8 -2,2
Available seat 153,1 -1,5 388,5 -6,0
kilometres mill
Revenue passenger 112,0 0,2 277,3 -0,1
kilometres mill
Passenger load 73,1 1,2 p 71,4 4,2 p
factor %
Cargo Traffic
Cargo scheduled 9 563,1 -2,8 26 220,3 1,3
traffic total
tonnes
Europe tonnes 1 793,7 -4,7 4 955,9 -4,4
North Atlantic 770,4 3,5 2 180,7 7,1
tonnes
Asia tonnes 6 843,2 -3,0 18 658,4 2,5
Domestic tonnes 155,7 0,2 425,3 -8,5
Cargo leisure 0,0 - 0,0 -
traffic tonnes
Cargo flights, 1 735,6 -52,0 4 209,3 -54,9
tonnes**
Cargo tonnes total 11 298,7 -16,0 30 429,7 -13,6
Available tonne 117,7 -0,1 337,8 3,3
kilometres* mill
Revenue tonne 66,7 -17,9 180,3 -14,6
kilometres mill
Cargo load factor* 56,6 -12,3 p 53,4 -11,1 p
%
- North-Atlantic 45,8 -15,2 p 41,6 -18,4 p
cargo load factor*
%
- Asia cargo load 56,5 -10,9 p 54,2 -8,0 p
factor* %
* Operational calculatory capacity
**Including purchased traffic
· Change %: Change compared to the figures of the respective periods in the
previous year (p = percentage points)
· Available seat kilometres, ASK: Total number of seats available, multiplied
by the number of kilometres flown
· Revenue passenger kilometres, RPK: Number of revenue passengers carried,
multiplied by kilometres flown
· Passenger load factor: Share of revenue passenger kilometres of available
seat kilometres
· Available tonne kilometres, ATK: Number of tonnes of capacity for carriage
of passengers, cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown
· Revenue tonne kilometres, RTK: Total revenue load consisting of passengers,
cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown
· Overall load factor: Share of revenue tonne kilometres of available tonne
kilometres
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