Traffic

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for May 2015. Traffic in May, was down about 2%, compared to the same period in 2014, with a 1% reduction in capacity. The load factor decreased 1 point compared to the same period last year to 82%.

Virgin America reported its preliminary operational results for May 2015. The airline’s traffic decreased 0.3%, while capacity was unchanged from the same month in 2014. Load factor was 84.2%, down 0.3 points from May 2014.

American Airlines Group’s total traffic for the month was up 0.7% versus May 2014. Total capacity was up 2.1% versus May 2014. Total load factor was 82.8% for the month of May, down 1.2 points versus May 2014.

UAL’s May 2015 consolidated traffic increased 0.5% and consolidated capacity increased 2.1% versus May 2014. UAL’s May 2015 consolidated load factor decreased 1.4 points to 83.9% compared to May 2014.

SAS reported that total traffic for May 2015 decreased by 8.7%, while total capacity was reduced by 4.4%, compared to the same period in 2014. The total load factor decreased by 3.4 points to 73.6% compared to May 2014.

In May, Finnair’s overall capacity grew by 1.5% and traffic by 0.6% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor was 75.0%, down 0.7 points.

IAG reported traffic in May increased by 5.7% versus May 2014, while Group capacity rose by 4.8%. Group load factor increased 0.7 points to 79.8%.

Ryanair reported May traffic inrease of 16% compared to the same period in 2014, while the load factor for May increased 7% to 92%.

For the month of May, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 82.3%, versus 83.3% in May 2014, on a system-wide capacity increase of 9.8%. On this additional capacity, system wide traffic for May increased 8.5%.

Low-cost airline Wizz Air reported passenger statistics for May 2015 with traffic increase of 18% and capacity increase of 20% when compared to the same month in 2014. The load factor was up 1.6 points to 89%.