SAS Group’s traffic increased by 14.4% during February and seat capacity was up by 13.5% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 2.4 million passengers in February, up 11.3% vs 2007. Total load factor was up 0.5 p.u. to 66.8%.
Copa Holdings, S.A. and its Copa Airlines and Aero Republica operating subsidiaries, released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for February 2008: traffic increases 15% in February 2008, while capacity incrased 12.2% compared to the same month in 2007. The load factor was up 1.9 pts to 78.1%.
Mainline traffic increased 18.1% from the same period last year and mainline capacity increased 7.5%. This resulted in a mainline load factor for Feb. 2008 of 77.8%, an increase of 7.0 points from Feb. 2007, when the airline reported a mainline load factor of 70.8.
For the month of February, system traffic on a consolidated basis for Air Canada and Jazz rose 5.8% on a capacity increase of 6.3% system wide. This resulted in a load factor of 79.2% versus 79.6% in February 2007.
For February, traffic grew by 28.2% based on a 14.0% increase in capacity. The company’s load factor for the month was 78.1%. The airline enplaned more than 1.8 million passengers for the month, a 21.9% increase from February 2007.
In February 2008, passenger capacity was 4.4% above February 2007. Traffic, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres, rose by 5.3%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 0.6 points versus last year, to 68.4%.
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. released preliminary passenger statistics for the month of February 2008. Consolidated passenger traffic for February 2008 increased 35.6% and capacity increased 64.2% year-over-year. Consolidated load factor for the month was down 12.6 pts from 72.3% in 2007.
Allegiant released that system traffic increased 44.1% compared to February 2007 while capacity increased 36.9%. System load factor was mesured at 83.9%, up 4.2 pts compared to February 2007.
Ryanair released that February traffic increased 20% compared to the same period in 2007 and that the load factor was down 2 pts from 77% in February 2007.
Delta Air Lines reported system load factor for February of 74.9%, up 0.8 pts from February 2007, system traffic in February 2008 increased 6.7% over February 2007 with a capacity increase of 5.6%.
