In May 2009 Finnair's traffic declined by 11%
from the previous year. Scheduled traffic in May was 9.8% lower
than in 2008. Asian traffic declined by 10.8% and North American
traffic by 7%. European traffic was 8% lower and domestic traffic
13.9% lower. In Cargo the fall in demand was sharper than in
recent months and in May cargo volume declined by 28%.
Due to the fall in demand, Finnair has cut its
capacity significantly in all types of traffic. Capacity has
been cut in domestic traffic by more than a quarter, in
leisure traffic by a fifth and in Asian traffic by more than 17%. Owing to the capacity cuts, passenger load factors
improved from last year, but are still below the long-term
average.
“We have succeeded in adjusting capacity better than last year. There is still space on aircraft, however, and
flight ticket prices are low. Unit revenue for scheduled passenger
traffic has continued to fall steeply throughout the early
part of the year,” said Finnair SVP Communications Christer
Haglund.
Leisure traffic volume declined as
expected from the previous month and was 16.8% lower in
May.
Of Finnair's flights, 92.2%
arrived on schedule, which represents an improvement of 7.2
percentage points from last year. The scheduled passenger
traffic punctuality percentage rose from April last year by 6.8
percentage points to 93.4%.
Finnair traffic decreased by 11%, measured in
revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 16.3%.
Passenger load factor was 4.2 percentage points higher than year
before, 69.1%. The number of passengers carried decreased by 11.3% and
was 571,374.
Scheduled Traffic
Scheduled traffic
decreased by 9.8%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres.
Capacity decreased by 15.7%. Passenger load factor was 4.4
percentage points higher than year before, 66.8%. Number of
passengers carried decreased by 10.2% and was 498,249.
Scheduled international traffic, decreased by 9.6%, measured
in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 15%.
Passenger load factor was 4 percentage points higher than year
before, 67.2%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 10%
and was 401,159.
European scheduled traffic, decreased by
8%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 13.1%. Passenger load factor was 3.6 percentage
points higher than year before, 65.3%. Number of passengers
carried decreased by 9.6% to 311,782.
North
Atlantic scheduled traffic decreased by 9.1%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased by 7%. Passenger
load factor was 1.7 percentage points lower than year before,
76.5%. Number of passengers carried decreased by 9.1% to
12,433.
Asian scheduled traffic decreased by 10.8%, measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased
by 17.4%. Passenger load factor was 4.9 percentage points
higher than year before, 67.5%. Number of passengers carried
decreased by 12% to 76,944.
Domestic scheduled
traffic decreased by 13.9%, measured in revenue passenger
kilometres. Capacity decreased by 27.7%. Passenger load factor was
9.5 percentage points higher than year before, 59.1%. Number
of passengers carried decreased by 10.9% to 97,090.
Leisure Traffic
Leisure traffic decreased by 16.8%,
measured in revenue passenger kilometres. Capacity decreased
by 20.4%. Passenger load factor was 3.6 percentage points
higher than year before, 84.7%. Number of passengers carried
decreased by 18.1% and was 73,125.
Cargo
Cargo
traffic decreased by 28% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Decrease in scheduled traffic was 27.1%. Cargo traffic
decreased by 28.5% in Asian traffic, decreased by 23% in
European traffic and by 28.3% in North-Atlantic
traffic.
Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights
decreased by 60.7%. The cargo load factor in Far Eastern
traffic was 64.4% and in the North Atlantic traffic 57.7%.
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