Airlines & Routes

With immediate effect, Austrian Airlines is offering flights to 20 cities in the US in cooperation with Star Alliance partner United Airlines. Austrian offers a direct connection across the Atlantic, from Vienna to Chicago, and from Chicago O

During 2007, Lufthansa welcomed around 56.4 million passengers on board its flights, a year-on-year increase of 5.6%, traffic increased 6.6% compared to 2006 and the load factor for the year 2007 was 77%, up 1.8 pts.

Pinnacle Airlines released its passenger and traffic levels for December 2007. During December, Pinnacle transported 795,796 customers, 4.3% more than the same period in 2006. Passenger Load Factor was 75.8%, an increase of 2.8 points over December 2006 levels. For the month, capacity decreased 2.1% when compared to the same period in 2006 and traffic

Hawaiian Airlines reported a load factor of 82.1% for December 2007, 2.1 pts lower than in December 2007, traffic for the month in-creased 2.2% and capacity increased 4.8% compared to December 2006.

LAN Airlines S.A. and its related companies reported that system passenger traffic for December increased 13.8% as capacity rose 13.6%. As a result, the Company

SAS Group’s traffic increased by 2.9% in December and capacity was up by 3.3% vs 2006. SAS Group carried 2.7 million passengers in December, up 0.3% vs 2006 and total load factor was down 0.3 p.u. to 65.8%.

easyJet reported that traffic increased 9.9% in December compared to the same period in 2006, the load factor for the month dropped 2.2 pts to 78.9%.

ATA Airlines reported that its scheduled service passenger load factor increased 3.2 points to 82.3% from 79.1% observed in December 2006. Scheduled service traffic increased 8.7% from December 2006 while capacity increased 4.4% when compared to the same period in 2006.

Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for December 2007. System traffic for December 2007 increased 3.0 % from December 2006 on a capacity increase of 3.1% Delta’s system load factor was 77.7% in December 2007, flat from the same period last year.

Alaska’s December traffic increased 6.3% while capacity increased 5.2% compared to December 2006. This resulted in a passenger load factor of 75.8%, compared to 75.1% in December 2006.