Finnair scheduled traffic up nearly 10% in September 2005

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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