Traffic

In April Finnair traffic rose by 5.9% and the overall capacity grew 6.7% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor fell by 0.5% points and was 75.8%.

For the month of April 2013, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 18.3% year over year, while capacity increased 20.0%.  As a result, system load factor for April 2013 was 73.6%, a 1.1 point decline when compared to April 2012.

Norwegian released that capacity in April was up 40% and traffic was up 36%. The load factor was 73.6%, down 2.2 percentage points.

AMR reported that consolidated traffic for April 2013 was 1.1% lower year-over-year, on 0.4% more capacity. The consolidated load factor decreased 1.3 points to 81.6% over the same period last year.

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for April 2013. The Company reported that traffic decreased 7% from April 2012, on a 7% reduction in capacity. Consolidated load factor increased one point to 81% from April 2012.

SAS Group’s capacity was up by 10.4% in April 2013 and the Group’s traffic increased by 1.5% compared to the same period in 2012. The SAS Group’s load factor decreased by 6.1 points to 69.5%.

UAL’s April 2013 consolidated traffic decreased 3.8% and consolidated capacity decreased 2.6% versus April 2012. UAL’s April 2013 consolidated load factor decreased 1.0 point to 81.7% compared to April 2012.

Southwest Airlines released that traffic in April 2013 increased 1.5% compared to April 2012, while capacity increased 4.1%. The April 2013 load factor was 77.8%, compared to 79.8% in April 2012.

WestJet announced April 2013 traffic results with a load factor of 82.7%, down 3.5 points compared to the previous year. Traffic increased 3.2% year over year, and capacity was 7.4% higher over the same period.