Airlines & Routes

Ryanair reported that June traffic grew 19% compared to the same period in 2007, while the load factor was reported at 84%, compared to 85% in June 2007.

SAS Group’s traffic increased by 3.5% during June and seat capacity was up by 5.9% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 4.0 million passengers in June, up 0.3% vs 2007. Total load factor was down by 1.8 pts to 74.7%.

Frontier Airlines announced preliminary traffic results for June 2008 for both Frontier’s mainline operation as well as its wholly owned subsidiary, Lynx Aviation. Traffic decreased 1.1% for June 2008 from the same period last year, while capacity decreased 1.3%. This resulted in a load factor for June 2008 of 87.2%, an increase of .2 points

WestJet announced June traffic results with a 76.5% load factor, a traffic improvement of 17.9%, and a capacity increase of 23.1%. This capacity increase is the largest percentage increase for the airline since November 2006.

Air France/KLM reported that June 2008 traffic rose 2.6% with capacity up 4.1%, compared to June 2007. The load factor amounted to 81.5%, down 1.2 pts compared to the same period last year.

easyJet reported that June load factors remained strong at 86.9%, compared to 86.8% in June 2007 and passenger numbers, including the effect of the GB Airways acquisition, grew 19.5% compared to the same period last year.

Finnair traffic increased by 5.3% in June, while the capacity was up by 10.4%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 73.4% or 3.6 points lower than last year. Finnair transported altogether 730 884 passengers, which is 1.1% less than a year ago.

SAS Group’s traffic increased by 3.5% during June while capacity was up by 5.9% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 4.0 million passengers in June, up 0.3% vs 2007 and the total load factor was down by 1.8 p.u. to 74.7%.

For the month of June, system traffic on a consolidated basis for Air Canada and Jazz rose 1.9% on a capacity increase of 2.7% system wide. This resulted in a load factor of 82.2% versus 82.8% in June 2007.

US Airways Group reported June traffic results. Mainline traffic for the month was down 0.5% from June 2007, capacity was up 0.4% versus June 2007 and the load factor for the month of June was 85.0%, down 0.8 points versus June 2007.