Mumbai, Delhi drive Finnair traffic growth
11 Apr 2008
Helsinki: Finnish flag carrier, Finnair, said that its Asian traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, grew 23.4% this year March, as compared to the same period of the previous year. Number of passengers carried on Finnair's Asian flights in March was 107,760, which is 17.9% more than a year ago.
Total revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 15 per cent from a year earlier to 2.01 billion in March, after a 17.3 per cent increase in February, Finnair said in a statement.
The airline carried 18 percent more passengers on its Asian routes than a year ago, with the increased traffic to Mumbai and Delhi as the engine for growth, it said.
Asian traffic measured in passenger kilometres, grew 23 per cent from a year ago.
Overall passenger load factor fell 2.2 percentage points to 76.4 per cent, due to an increase in capacity.
RPKs in European traffic grew by 7.4% and passenger load factor decreased by 1.2 percentage points to 66.8%.
Finnair's punctuality has improved compared with the first months of the year.
In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 35.1%. The passenger traffic was up by 23.4%. Passenger load factor was 74.8%, 7.1 percentage points down.
Cargo traffic increased by 15.1% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in scheduled traffic was 22.7%. Increase in Asian traffic was 38.8%. Volume in European traffic decreased by 0.2%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume increased by 3.1%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by 57.7%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern traffic was 73.6% and in the North Atlantic traffic 77.4%.
