WestJet announced April traffic results with a record load factor of 84.0%. Traffic increased 12.1% year over year, and capacity grew 8.3% over the same period. The airline flew an additional 70,000 guests in April 2010 compared to April 2009.
US Airways Group announced April 2010 traffic results. Traffic for the month was down 5.0% versus April 2009. Capacity was down 2.5% versus April 2009 and the passenger load factor for the month of April was 82.7%, down 2.1 points versus April 2009.
Allegiant Air reported preliminary passenger traffic results for April 2010. Traffic increased 12,3% compared to the same period in 2009, while capacity increased 12.1%. The load factor for the month was 87.9% up 0.2 pts.
SAS Group’s traffic increased by 3.4% during March and seat capacity was down 8.8% compared to the same period in 2009. SAS Group carried 2.2 million passengers in March, up 2.1% vs. same period in 2009 and the load factor was 73.1%, up 8.6 p.u. vs. March 2009.
LAN Airlines reported that traffic for March decreased 8.2% as capacity declined 4.1%. As a result, the Company’s load factor decreased 3.2 points to 72.9%. March 2010 traffic was affected by flight cancellations due to the shutdown of the Santiago International Airport as a result of the earthquake that affected Chile on February 27, 2010.
Norwegian reported that total passenger traffic increased by 38% compared to the same period in 2009, total capacity increased by 34 % and the load factor was 78%, up 3 p.p.
Air France/KLM released that traffic increased by 4.7% in March while capacity was reduced by 1.9%, enabling the load factor to rise by 5.0 points to 80.5%. All networks saw an increase in traffic and load factor. The group carried 5.9 million passengers (+3.6%).
For the month of March, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 82.1% on a consolidated basis with Jazz, versus 80.7% in March 2009, an increase of 1.4 percentage points. System traffic increased 9.6% on a capacity increase of 7.7% system wide.
Southwest Airlines released that March 2010 traffic increased 0.4% from March 2009, capacity decreased 4.2% and the load factor for the month was 81.0% compared to 77.3% for the same period last year.
British Airways reported that March 2010 traffic fell by 11.4% compared to March 2009. Capacity was down 13.7% and the load factor increased 2.0 points versus last year, to 74.7%. Traffic comprised a 7.2% decrease in premium traffic and a 12.2% decrease in non-premium traffic. Both traffic and capacity were affected by the strike action
