SAS reported scheduled traffic increased 20.5% in January and capacity was up 11.3% compared to January 2016. The load factor for the month improved by 5.3 points to 69.0%. SAS carried 1.9 million scheduled passengers in January, up 9.8% vs. last year.
In January, Finnair’s overall capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres grew by 0.1%, and traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 3.4% year‐on‐year. Overall, the passenger load factor increased by 2.6 points to 80.5%.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced full-year global passenger traffic results for 2016 showing demand rose 6.3% compared to 2015 (or 6.0% if adjusted for the leap year). This strong performance was well ahead of the ten-year average annual growth rate of 5.5%. Capacity rose 6.2% (unadjusted) compared to 2015, pushing the load factor
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) released its final passenger numbers from 2016, demonstrating significant growth across all major sectors. YVR welcomed a record total of over 22.3 million passengers—an increase of 9.7% over 2015—putting the airport on track to meet the goal of 25 million passengers by 2020. Year-Over-Year Passenger Growth Highlights: January – December, 2016:
For January 2017 Delta reported system traffic was up 0.4% compared to the same period in 2016 and system capacity increased 0.6%. System load factor for January was 81.2%, down 0.1 points compared to January 2016.
In 2016, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served a total of 60,792,308 passengers, thus surpassing the 60 million passenger mark once again and remaining almost at the previous year’s level (down 0.4%). Following a slowdown in the summer period of 2016 caused by geopolitical factors, passenger traffic clearly picked up again towards the end of the year.
For the month of December 2016, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 9.0% year over year, while capacity increased 2.2%. As a result, system load factor for December 2016 was 81%, 5.1 points increase when compared to December 2015.
UAL’s December 2016 consolidated traffic increased 2.6% and consolidated capacity increased 2.6% versus December 2015. UAL’s December 2016 consolidated load factor increased 0.1 points to 83.1% compared to December 2015.
WestJet announced December 2016 traffic results with a load factor of 80.8%, an increase of 1.6 points year over year. Traffic increased 9.1% year over year and capacity grew 7.1% over the same period.
Alaska Air Group reported December and full-year operational results on a combined basis, for its subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Virgin America and for its regional flying operated by subsidiary Horizon Air Industries and third-party regional carriers, SkyWest Airlines and PenAir (Regional). On a combined basis, Air Group reported a 5.6% increase in traffic on a
