Airlines & Routes

Ryanair released that January traffic grew 9% compared to the same period last year and the load factor improved 1.0 ppt to 70%.

For the month of January, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 77.5% on a consolidated basis with Jazz, versus 78.1% in January 2009, a decrease of 0.6 percentage points. System traffic increased 4.1% on a capacity increase of 4.9% system wide.

Alaska reported an increase in load factor to 77.7% in January 2010, compared to 71.7% in January 2009, on a 1.0% increase in capacity compared to the prior-year period. Traffic in January 2010 increased 9.5% compared to th previous year. Horizon reported an increase in load factor to 68.8% in January 2010, compared to 63.1%

WestJet announced January 2010 traffic results with a record load factor of 78.8%. Traffic increased 9.7% year over year, and capacity grew 6.9% compared to the same period last year.

American Airlines reported a January load factor of 76.2%, an increase of 2.4 points versus the same period last year. Traffic increased 0.4% and capacity decreased 2.7% year over year.

US Airways Group announced January traffic results. Mainline traffic was down 1.4% versus January 2009. Capacity was down 0.4% versus January 2009. Passenger load factor for the month of January was 75.1%, down 0.7 points versus January 2009.

Starting from 12 February 2010, Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start code share cooperation on Estonian Air flights on Amsterdam-Vilnius-Amsterdam route. Estonian Air will serve the route as a through flight to/from Tallinn with six weekly frequencies on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Lufthansa flew fewer passengers in 2009 than in the previous year. In the period January through December, around 55.6 million passengers opted for flights with Lufthansa, a decline of 2.6% on the year-earlier level. During the year, capacity was scaled back by 1.3%. Traffic fell by 2.4%, while the load factor was down year-on-year by

Norwegian experienced strong passenger growth last year and flew 18% more passengers than the previous year. In total, 63 new routes were established; 30 in Denmark, 18 in Sweden and 15 new routes in Norway. In December, Norwegian transported 815 562 passengers a 25% increase from the same month in 2008. The load factor for

Effective February 1st, 2010 Hahn Air will operate flights between D