Southwest Airlines announced that traffic in February 2009 decreased 6.0%, capacity decreased 6.5% from the February 2008 level and the load factor for the month was 69.1% compared to 68.6% for the same period last year.
AirTran Airways reported a February traffic decrease of 13.9% compared to the same period in 2008, capacity decreased 9.1% while the load factor was down 3.9 pts to 74.2%.
Austrian Airlines Group carried some 632,000 passengers in January (scheduled and charter), 13.0% fewer than January last year. The overall load factor stood at 65.4%, 4.3 percentage points below the figure for January 2008. Austrian Airlines Group is taking Nuremberg (from 1 March), Ankara (from 1 March) and Nizhny Novgorod (from 2 March) out of
Iberia reported that January 2009 capacity was down 8.1%, traffic decreased by 12.0% while load factor stood at 74.0%, falling 3.3 points with respect to the level reached one year before.
BA reported that January 2009 passenger capacity was 2.6% below January 2008 and traffic fell by 1.3%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 1.0 points versus last year, to 73.2%.
SAS Group’s traffic decreased by 14.8% during January and seat capacity was down 9.8% vs 2008. Total passenger load factor in January was down by 3.6 p.u. to 60.7%.
For the month of January, Air Canada reported a load factor of 78.1% on a consolidated basis with Jazz, versus 77.9% in January 2008, an increase of 0.2 percentage points. System traffic decreased 8.5% on a capacity reduction of 8.8% system wide.
American Airlines reported a January load factor of 73.8 % a decrease of 2.8 point versus the same period last year. Traffic decreased 11.7% and capacity decreased 8.3% year over year.
Copa Holdings, S.A. and its Copa Airlines and Aero Republica operating subsidiaries, released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for January 2009. For the month of January, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 15.5%, while capacity increased 18.0%. System load factor for January 2009 was 77.8%, a 1.7 percentage point decrease when compared to January 2008.
JetBlue Airways Corporation reported that its traffic in January decreased 7.1%t from January 2008, on a capacity decrease of 5.1%. Load factor for January 2009 was 74.0%, a decrease of 1.6 points from January 2008.
