Traffic

Ryanair reported September traffic increase of 10%, despite 2,100 flight cancellations for September and October. The load factor for the month improved 2.0 points to 97% compared to the same month in 2016. Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said that the airline now has refunded/re-accommodated 98% of customers who were impacted in September and October. The remaining […]

American Airlines Group (AAL) has reported traffic figures for August. Consolidated traffic was up 3.7% versus August 2016, while capacity expanded 3.2% Total passenger load factor increased 0,4 points to 83.3% versus the previous year.

UAL’s August 2017 consolidated traffic increased 2.3% and consolidated capacity increased 2.4% compared to August 2016. UAL’s August 2017 consolidated load factor decreased 0.2 points to 85.3% compared to the previous year.

Allegiant Travel has posted preliminary passenger traffic results for August 2017. Traffic for the month was up 5.3%, while capacity increased 7.2% compared to the previous year. Load factor for August was down 1.5 points to 85.1%. Hawaiian Airlines has reported its system-wide traffic statistics for the month of August. Traffic for August increased 1%

Alaska Air Group has reported August operational results on a consolidated basis. On a combined basis for all operations, Air Group reported a 5.8% increase in traffic on a 5.5% increase in capacity compared to August 2016. Load factor increased 0.4 points to 86.2%.

SAS has released that traffic in August increased 2.3% and capacity was up 6.4%, compared to the same period in 2016. The load factor decreased by 3.2 points versus last year to 78%.

Icelandair has reported that traffic in August increasing by 4% year over year, while capacity increased by 3% compared to August 2016. The load factor was 72.3% up by 2.4 points compared to the previous year.

Norwegian has carried almost 3.3 million passengers in August 2017, an increase of 14% compared to the same month the previous year. Total traffic increased by 26% in August, driven by a 24% capacity growth. The load factor increased by 1.4 points to 91.1%.

In August, Finnair’s overall capacity increased by 11% year‐on‐year, and traffic grew by 14.7%. The number of passengers carried during the month was 1.08 million, corresponding to an increase of 10.1% year-on-year. The passenger load factor increased by 2.7 points to 85.8%.

Ryanair has reported that traffic in August 2017 grew 10% compared to August 2016 and the load factor rose 1.0 point to 97% compared to the previous year.