Airlines & Routes

SAS Group’s traffic decreased by 10.9% during December and seat capacity was down 16.4% vs. 2008. SAS Group carried 1.7 million passengers in December, down 7.1% vs. 2008, while the load factor was 69.7%, up 4.3 p.u. vs. December 2008 and up for the sixth month in a row.

Air France KLM released that traffic in December 2009 declined 4.6%, while capacity declined 5.5% compared to December 2008. The load factor for the month was up 0.8 pts. to 79.7%.

BA released that in December 2009, passenger capacity was 4.2% below December 2008, while traffic fell by 4.0%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 0.1 points versus last year, to 76.8%.

Norwegian reported that traffic increased 24% in December 2009 and capacity increased 21% compared to December 2008. The load factor was 76%, up 2 pts compared to the same period in 2008.

Ryanair released that traffic grew 12% in December 2009, while the load factor was up 2.0 pts to 81% compared to the same period in 2008.

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for December 2009. The Company reported that traffic increased 112.4% from the same month last year, while cpacity increased 99.5%. Load factor was 75.3% versus 70.7% in December 2008.

JetBlue Airways reported that its traffic in December increased 7.5% from December 2008, on a capacity increase of 6.6%. Load factor for December 2009 was 80.0%, an increase of 0.6 points from December 2008.

Southwest Airlines announced that traffic in December 2009 increased 3.0%, while capacity decreased 5.8%. The load factor for the month was 76.2% compared to 69.7% for the same period last year.

Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for December 2009. System traffic in December 2009, including both Delta and Northwest operations, decreased 7.5% compared to December 2008 on an 8.0% decrease in capacity. Load factor increased 0.4 points to 81.2%.