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In
September 2005, Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 9.4% compared to September
2004. The number of passengers increased by 6.4% up to 638,800
passengers, while capacity increased by just 3.2%. The passenger load factor was 69.4%, up 3.9 percentage points. The passenger load factor in European traffic was up by 6.2%. Half
of Finnair's revenues in scheduled traffic are derived from European traffic.
Finnair's total traffic increased by 8.4%. Capacity was up by 3.8%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 72.6%, which is 3.1 points higher than last year. All Finnair
Group airlines together transported 767,700 passengers, which is 6.3% more than a year ago.
Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS, carried 71,300 passengers (+579.1%) on routes between Helsinki and the Baltic capitals and within Southern Finland. During
September, Stockholm-based flynordic continued to gain market share and carried 112,500 passengers (+70.3%), which is a new record for the company. Aero and
flynordic figures are respectively included in Finnair Group total figures.
Departure punctuality of scheduled flights was 90.4% (based on a fifteen minute standard), 2.2 points lower than in September 2004. Including leisure flights departure
punctuality was 89.6% (-1.8 p.p). Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights was 91.2% and that of all operations was 90.2%.
Scheduled traffic
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres increased by 9.4%. The change in capacity was +3.2%. Passenger load factor was 69.4%,
3.9 percentage points higher than last year.
In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by
14%. Capacity in ASKs was +4.3%, while RPKs increased by 11.4%.
In
European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 5.2%, and as RPKs increased by 16.8%, the passenger load factor was 62.4%, up 6.2 points from previous year.
In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity decreased by 34.5%. Change in RPKs was -22.8%, and passenger load factor for September was 90.4%, 13.7 points higher
than previous year.
In
Asian scheduled traffic, the capacity increase was 12.1% and passenger traffic
up by 13.9%. Passenger load factor was 81%, 1.3 percentage points up.
Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 8.6% on a capacity decrease of 4.5%. Passenger load factor decreased by 2.3 percentage points to
52%.
Leisure traffic
ASKs for leisure traffic increased in September by
6%, and RPKs increased by 5.5%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 84.1%, 0.4 points lower than last year.
Cargo
Cargo traffic increased by 2.9% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in scheduled traffic was +3.8%. Increase in Asian traffic was +12.6%. Volume in European traffic
increased by 3.1%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume decreased by 26.3%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by 1.8%. The cargo load factor
was 66.1%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern traffic was 81.5% and in the North Atlantic traffic 83.2%.
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