ExpressJet reported traffic increase of 15% in January and a capacity inprovement of 9% compared to the same month in 2009. The load factor in January was up 3.8 pts to 72%.
Iberia released that the load factor improved 5.9 points, reaching 80.0%, level record for the month of January in the history of the company. Capacity declined 5.7% while traffic grew 1.8% compared to the same period in 2009.
United Airlines reported its preliminary consolidated traffic results for January 2010. Consolidated traffic increased in January by 2.4% on a decrease of 2.0% in capacity compared with the same period in 2009. This resulted in a reported January 2010 consolidated passenger load factor of 78.5%, an increase of 3.4 points compared to 2009.
SAS Group’s traffic decreased by 5.1% during January and seat capacity was down 12.3% vs. 2009. The load factor was 65.6%, up 4.9 p.u. vs. January 2009. SAS Group carried 1.7 million passengers in January, down 3.7% vs. 2009.
Air France/KLM released that traffic declined 1.6% in January with capacity reduced by 3.4%, leading to a 1.4 pts improvement in the load factor to 78.0%. The group carried a total of 5.1 million passengers (-3.2%).
BA reported that in January 2010, passenger capacity was 8.3% below January 2009, while traffic fell by 7.0%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 1.0 point versus last year, to 74.2%.
Norwegian released that traffic in January 2010 increased 28% compared to the same period last year, while capacity also increased 28%. The load factor for January was 72% which is equivalent to last year.
Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for January 2010. The Company reported a 119% increase in traffic compared to the month last year, while capacity increased 102%. Consolidated load factor was 68% versus 63% in January 2009.
Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for January 2010. System traffic in January 2010 decreased 5.0% compared to January 2009 on a 5.6% decrease in capacity. Load factor increased 0.5 points to 76.6%.
Ryanair released that January traffic grew 9% compared to the same period last year and the load factor improved 1.0 ppt to 70%.
