International Airlines Group (IAG) traffic in June increased by 9.1% versus June 2017, while Group capacity rose by 5.4% year over year. Group load factor increased 3.1 points to 87.4% compared to the previous year.
Ryanair has released that June traffic grew 7% compared to the previous year, to 12.6 million customers. The load factor for the month was the same as in June 2017, at 96%.
With ongoing robust traffic growth in May 2018, Frankfurt Airport welcomed some 6.1 million passengers and registered a 9.5% increase compared to the previous year. Factors contributing to this growth included the occurrence in May 2018 of several extended holiday weekends, as well as school breaks in some German states. In addition, increased capacity on
In May 2018, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group welcomed around 12.9 million passengers. This shows an increase of 11% compared to the previous year. Capacity was up 7.8% over the previous year, at the same time, sales increased by 8.3%. The seat load factor increased by 0.4 points compared to May 2017 to 79.4%.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has reported traffic results for May 2018. Scheduled traffic increased 1.6% compared to the previous year, while capacity increased 1.5%. The load factor increased to 74.1%, up 0.1 point versus last year.
Southwest Airlines has reported its May traffic statistics. Traffic in May 2018 increased 4.2% compared to May 2017, while capacity increased 5.2%. The May 2018 load factor was 84.6% compared with 85.4% in May 2017.
WestJet has reported May 2018 traffic results with a load factor of 82.2%, an increase of 1.6 points year over year. Traffic increased 7.5% year over year, while capacity grew 5.4% over the same period. WestJet welcomed an additional 147,000 guests in May, a year-over-year increase of 7.5%.
Ryanair has released that traffic in May 2018 grew 6% to 12.5m customers compared to May 2017 and the load factor rose 1% to 96% compared to the previous year.
Norwegian has released that a total of 3,421,460 passengers chose to fly with Norwegian in May, 497,863 more than the same period last year. Total traffic growth and capacity growth both increased by 51% compared to the same period a year ago. The load factor remained unchanged at 86.5%.
Finnair’s overall capacity increased in May by 21.5% year-on-year and traffic increased by 18.8%. The load factor decreased year-on-year by 1.8 points to 79.5%.
