Finnair Plc. Stock Exchange Release 8 January 2014 at 09:00
In December, Finnair traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres decreased by 2.7 per cent and the overall capacity decreased 0.9 per cent year?on?year. Passenger load factor decreased by 1.4 percentage points and was 75.8 per cent.
The capacity in Asian traffic grew by 1.6 per cent and the traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres by 0.3 per cent year?on?year.
European traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 12.1 per cent and capacity by 6.3 per cent year-on-year.
In October-December, the passenger unit revenue* per available seat kilometre fell by 4.6% year?on-year, and was 5.17 euro cents.
“Despite the positive load factor development in previous months, unit revenue for the last quarter decreased year?on?year, mainly reflecting continuing weakness of the Japanese Yen,” says Finnair CFO Erno Hildén.
Leisure traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres decreased by 32.5 per cent and capacity decreased by 20.7 per cent year-on-year.
In cargo, traffic measured in revenue tonne kilometres grew by 1.2 per cent and the overall capacity grew by 2.3 per cent year-on-year. The load factor was 0.7 percentage points below last year’s level and was 65.0 per cent.
In December, 83.1 per cent of scheduled flights arrived on schedule (64.7). Of all traffic, 82.9 per cent (64.0) of flights were on schedule.
*Unit revenue = Ticket revenue/ASK.
Finnair Traffic Performance December 2013
| December 2013 | %-Change | January-December 2013 | %-Change | |
| Total Traffic | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 694.1 | 4.1 | 9 269.5 | 5.6 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 2 440.4 | -0.9 | 31 162.0 | 2.6 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 1 849.1 | -2.7 | 24 776.1 | 5.1 |
| Passenger load factor % | 75.8 | -1.4 p | 79.5 | 1.9 p |
| Cargo tonnes total | 11 760.1 | 5.0 | 146 653.8 | -1.0 |
| Available tonne kilometres mill | 370.0 | 0.4 | 4 709.2 | 1.3 |
| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill | 235.8 | -1.6 | 3 107.4 | 2.6 |
| Overall load factor % | 63.7 | -1.3 p | 66.0 | 0.8 p |
| Scheduled Total | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 650.7 | 9.0 | 8 501.5 | 6.8 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 2 103.4 | 3.2 | 27 796.8 | 3.8 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 1 598.7 | 4.6 | 21 803.6 | 7.0 |
| Passenger load factor % | 76.0 | 1.0 p | 78.4 | 2.3 p |
| Europe | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 370.0 | 11.7 | 5 036.1 | 9.4 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 700.5 | 6.3 | 9 560.5 | 9.0 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 532.1 | 12.1 | 7 256.7 | 11.7 |
| Passenger load factor % | 76.0 | 3.9 p | 75.9 | 1.9 p |
| North Atlantic | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 13.2 | 4.5 | 205.5 | 5.6 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 101.9 | 1.7 | 1 567.0 | 3.1 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 87.1 | 4.5 | 1 356.4 | 5.6 |
| Passenger load factor % | 85.5 | 2.3 p | 86.6 | 2.0 p |
| Asia | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 118.6 | -0.5 | 1 656.5 | 5.5 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 1 182.6 | 1.6 | 15 413.1 | 1.4 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 898.5 | 0.3 | 12 376.1 | 5.1 |
| Passenger load factor % | 76.0 | -0.9 p | 80.3 | 2.8 p |
| Domestic | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 149.0 | 11.2 | 1 603.5 | 0.7 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 118.5 | 3.7 | 1 256.2 | -2.0 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 81.0 | 8.3 | 814.4 | 0.1 |
| Passenger load factor % | 68.4 | 2.9 p | 64.8 | 1.3 p |
| Leisure Traffic | ||||
| Passengers 1000 | 43.4 | -37.6 | 767.9 | -5.6 |
| Available seat kilometres mill | 337.0 | -20.7 | 3 365.2 | -6.5 |
| Revenue passenger kilometres mill | 250.5 | -32.5 | 2 972.5 | -6.8 |
| Passenger load factor % | 74.3 | -13.0 p | 88.3 | -0.3 p |
| Cargo Traffic | ||||
| Cargo scheduled traffic total tonnes | 8 974.9 | -2.4 | 113 906.4 | -0.8 |
| Europe tonnes | 1 840.5 | -1.5 | 23 346.5 | 11.7 |
| North Atlantic tonnes | 681.4 | -0.7 | 7 682.0 | 0.2 |
| Asia tonnes | 6 308.6 | -2.9 | 81 027.2 | -3.8 |
| Domestic tonnes | 144.4 | 1.5 | 1 850.6 | -10.5 |
| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes | 19.6 | -77.3 | 232.8 | 0.5 |
| Cargo flights, tonnes** | 2 765.6 | 43.9 | 32 514.6 | -1.6 |
| Cargo tonnes total | 11 760.1 | 5.0 | 146 653.8 | -1.0 |
| Available tonne kilometres* mill | 108.0 | 2.3 | 1 354.4 | -0.7 |
| Revenue tonne kilometres mill | 70.2 | 1.2 | 888.0 | -3.3 |
| Cargo load factor* % | 65.0 | -0.7 p | 65.6 | -1.7 p |
| - North-Atlantic cargo load factor* % | 82.2 | -3.5 p | 73.0 | -2.3 p |
| - Asia cargo load factor* % | 76.4 | -2.5 p | 74.1 | -4.5 p |
* Operational calculatory capacity ** Includes Finnair’s 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
Traffic statistics for January are published on 7 February 2014.
Finnair Plc. Communications 8 January 2014
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