In March 2019, the Lufthansa Group airlines welcomed more than 11 million passengers. This shows an increase of 1.7% compared to the previous year’s month. The available seat kilometres were up 4.9% over the previous year, at the same time, sales increased by 4.1%. In addition as compared to March 2018, the seat load factor
JetBlue Airways has released its preliminary traffic results for March 2019. Traffic in March increased 7.9% from March 2018, on a capacity increase of 12.6%. Load factor for March 2019 was 85.3%, a decrease of 3.7 points from March 2018.
Air France KLM Group (incl. Transavia) has reported that March traffic incrased 2.8% compared to the previous year, while capacity was up 3.1%. The Group load factor for March was 87.6%, down 0.3 points compared to March 2018.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Geir Karlsen has been appointed deputy CEO of Norwegian. Karlsen joined Norwegian as CFO in April 2018. He has extensive experience from listed companies within shipping and offshore. Karlsen has over the last 12 years held various CFO positions with international companies such as Golden Ocean Group and Songa Offshore. Before
WestJet has released March 2019 traffic results with a load factor of 87.0%, an increase of 1.4 points year over year. Traffic increased 7.3% year over year, while capacity grew 5.5% over the same period. WestJet welcomed an additional 104,000 guests in March, a year-over-year increase of 4.8%.
IAG traffic in February increased by 6.3% versus the same period last year, while IAG capacity rose by 6.4%. The load factor for March was 79.6% compared to 79.7% the previous year.
In March, Finnair carried 1,144,900 passengers, 4.6% more than in the corresponding period of 2018. The overall capacity increased in March by 11.0%. Finnair’s traffic increased by 2.8% and the passenger load factor decreased year-on-year by 6.2% points to 78.3%. This is partly influenced by the timing of the Easter holiday, which is in April
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), decreased 4.7% in February 2019, compared to the same period in 2018. This was the fourth consecutive month of negative year-on-year growth and the worst performance in the last three years. Freight capacity,
Aeroflot PJSC has reported operating results for Aeroflot Group and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines for February 2019. In February 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 3.9 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%. Aeroflot airline carried 2.6 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%. Group and Company was up 17.5% and 11.5% year-on-year, respectively. Capacity rose by
Cathay Pacific Group has released combined Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon traffic figures for February 2019 that show an increase in the number of passengers carried and a drop in cargo and mail uplifted compared to the same month in 2018. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of 2,833,534 passengers last month –
