Traffic

Southwest Airlines’ traffic in January 2013 was down 1.7% compared to January 2012, capacity increased 0.5% compared to the previous year. The January 2013 load factor was 72.7%, compared to 74.3% in January 2012.

SAS Group traffic in January 2013 increased by 3.9%, while capacity was up by 4.6%. The Group’s load factor decreased by 0.5 points to 64.5%.

For the month of January 2013, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 21.3% year over year, while capacity increased 21.0%. As a result, system load factor for January 2013 was 79.6%, a 0.2 point increase when compared to January 2012.

For the month of January, Air Canada reported a record system load factor of 79.4%, versus 79.1% in January 2012, an increase of 0.3 points. System traffic increased 0.3% on a system-wide capacity decrease of 0.1%.

US Airways Group announced January 2013 traffic results. Mainline traffic for the month was up 4.8% versus January 2012, while mainline capacity was up 1.8% versus January 2012. Mainline passenger load factor was 81.1% for the month of January, up 2.3 points versus January 2012.

On a combined basis, Alaska Air Group reported an 11.5% increase in traffic on an 11.4% increase in capacity compared to January 2012. This resulted in a 0.1-point increase in load factor to a January record of 82.7%. These statistics include flights operated by Alaska and those under capacity purchase agreements, including Horizon, SkyWest and

Delta reported that January 2013 traffic was unchanged when compared to the previous year, capacity was down 2.4% compared to January 2012 and the load factor for the month was up 1.9 points to 79.4%.

The SAS Group reported that traffic for the month of December increased 2.4%, while capacity was up 3%. The SAS Group’s load factor decreased 0.5 points to 69.5%.

Air France-KLM reported that traffic for December 2012 was stable for a 0.4% reduction in capacity. The load factor for the month stood at 81.8% up 0.3 points compared to December 2011. The number of passengers amounted to 5.99m, down 2.0%.

US Airways Group released that mainline traffic for the month of December 2012 was up 1.3% versus December 2011. Mainline capacity was down 0.2% versus December 2011 and mainline load factor was 83.1%  for the month of December, up 1.2 points versus December 2011.