Traffic

Norwegian reported that December 2013 capacity increased 48% and traffic increased 52% compared to the same period in 2012. The load factor was 78%, up 1.9 points from December 2012.

American Airlines Group (AAL) reported December 2013 traffic results for both American Airlines and US Airways. American’s consolidated traffic for the month was up 5.0% versus December 2012, while consolidated capacity was up 1.1% versus December 2012. Consolidated passenger load factor was 83.3% for the month of December, up 3.1 points versus December 2012. US

UAL’s December 2013 consolidated traffic increased 4.1% and consolidated capacity increased 0.5% versus December 2012. UAL’s December 2013 consolidated load factor increased 3.0 points to 85.4% compared to December 2012.

In December, Finnair traffic decreased by 2.7% and the overall capacity decreased 0.9% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor decreased by 1.4 points and was 75.8%.

Republic Airways Holdings reported that December traffic increased 10% over the same period in 2012 on a 7% increase in capacity. The load factor for the month was up 3.0 points to 79% when compared to the previous year.

Air Canada reported a system load factor of 82.7%, versus 82.1% in December 2013, an increase of 0.6 points. System traffic increased 4.8% on a system-wide capacity increase of 4.0%t. For the full year 2013, load factor was a record 82.8% versus 82.7%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points.

Alaska reported a 6.5% increase in traffic on a 4.5% increase in capacity compared to December 2012. This resulted in a 1.7-point increase in load factor, to 88.0%. Horizon reported a 3.9% increase in December traffic on flat capacity compared to December 2012. This resulted in a 3.1-point increase in load factor, to 82.5%.

WestJet reported December 2013 traffic results with a load factor of 81.7%, slightly down by 0.2 points. Traffic increased 7.2% year over year and capacity grew 7.4% over the same period.

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for November 2013. Traffic in November decreased 1.0% from the same period in 2012 while capacity increased 3.0% over November 2012. The load factor was down 3.0 points to 74%.

In November, Finnair traffic decreased by 7.1% and the overall capacity decreased 4.9% year‐on‐year due to the strike treat and preparations made for the possible strikes of The Finnish Flight Attendants’ Association (SLSY) and The Finnish Aviation Union (IAU). Passenger load factor was 1.6 points below last year’s level and was 71.3%.