For the month of December 2012, Copa Holdings’ system-wide traffic increased 21.2% year over year, while capacity increased 20.5%. As a result, system load factor for December 2012 was 76.2%, a 0.4 percentage point increase when compared to December 2011.
Frontier Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings (RJET), reported preliminary traffic results for December 2012. For the month, Frontier’s load factor increased by 2 points from December 2011 to 87%. Frontier’s traffic decreased 10%, on a 12% decrease in capacity.
Norwegian reported for December traffic growth of 19% compared to the same period in 2011, while capacity was up by 21%. The load factor for the month was reported at 76%, down 1.0 point comapared to December 2011.
Ryanair reported a 2% traffic increase in December 2012 compared to the previous year, while the load factor for the month was recorded at 81%, up 2.0 points.
In December 2012, IAG traffic rose by 0.3% versus December 2011, Group capacity was down 0.4%, while the load factor for December was up 0.5 points to 78.1%
SkyWest reported combined December 2012 traffic for SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines. SkyWest reported a 1.6% increase in traffic for December, while capacity decreased 0.5% compared to December 2011. Combined load factor was up 1.6 points to 80.1%.
For the month of December 2012, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 82.1%, versus 81.0% in December 2011, an increase of 1.1 percentage points. System traffic increased 3.2% on a system-wide capacity increase of 1.8%.
WestJet announced December 2012 traffic results with a load factor of 81.9%. Traffic increased 7.2% year over year, and capacity grew 6.0% over the same period.
For the month of December Delta reported traffic increase of 0.5% compared to the previous year, while capacity decreased 1.7% compared to December 2011. The load factor for the month was up 1.8 points to 82.7%.
Vueling Airlines carried 963,552 passengers in November 2012, a 17.0% increase compared to November 2011. Traffic for the month of November increased 26,4%, while capacity increased 25.4% compared to the previous year. The company reached a load factor of 77.1%, up 0.6 points.
