For the month of December 2008, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 16.5%, while capacity increased 20.0%. System load factor for December 2008 was 74.2%, a 2.2 percentage point decrease when compared to December 2007.
Norwegian reported that total passenger traffic increased by 20% compared to 2007, capacity increased by 25% and the load factor was 74% a decrease of 3 percentage point compared to the same period in 2007.
SAS Group’s traffic decreased by 12.5% during December 2008 and seat capacity was down 10.2% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 2.2 million passengers in December, down 3.0% vs 2007. Total passenger load factor in December was down by 1.7 p.u. to 64,8%.
Iberia reported that total capacity decreased by 5.7% in December 2008 and traffic dropped by 7.0% compared to the same period in 2007. The load factor stood at 76.0%, 1.1 points down on last year.
Lufthansa released that in the twelve months from January through December, a total of about 57 million passengers took flights with Lufthansa, an increase of 1.2% on the year-earlier level. Capacity in the same period was raised by 4.9%, while traffic rose by 3.5%. The load factor fell by 1.1 percentage points to 78.6%.
GOL Brazil’s low-cost airline, released preliminary passenger statistics for the month of December 2008. Domestic passenger traffic for December 2008 decreased 1.7% and capacity increased 5.1% year-over-year. Domestic load factor for the month was 68%.
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Delta’s system traffic in December 2008 increased 0.7% versus December 2007 on a capacity decrease of 2.4%. Delta’s system load factor increased 2.4 points to 80.1%.
JetBlue Airways Corporation reported that its traffic in December decreased 1.8% from December 2007, on a capacity decrease of 5.1%. Load factor for December 2008 was 79.4%, an increase of 2.6 points from December 2007.
easyJet reported that traffic for December 2008 increased 7.3% compared to December 2007 and that the load factor was up 3.3 pts to 82.3% compared to the same period in 2007.
