FINNAIR’S ASIAN TRAFFIC CONTINUES TO GROW

by Jarkko on November 10, 2008

Finnair‘s Asian traffic grew 18.1% compared to October of the previous year.Number of passengers carried on Finnair’s Asian flights in October was 124 289,which is 18.1% more than a year ago. Finnair increased its capacity andsucceeded to fill the aircraft in a quiet market situation, but due to theworld’s financial crisis the amount of business travel decreased. Compared tolast year Finnair has opened a new Asian destinations, Soul, in June.Finnair traffic altogether increased by 11.7% in October, while the capacity wasup by 9.2%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 78.2% or 1.7 points higherthan last year. Finnair transported altogether 751 916 passengers, which is 4.8%more than a year ago.Finnair scheduled traffic increased by 12.6% compared to October last year.Number of passengers carried on scheduled flights was 630 908, which is 3.7%more than in 2007. Passenger load factor in scheduled passenger traffic was76.8%, 1.9 percentage points higher than last year. RPKs in European trafficincreased by 5.9% and passenger load factor increased by 1.1 percentage pointsto 68.2%.Leisure flights’ passenger load factor increased by 1.0 percentage points to84.2% compared to the previous year.Arrival punctuality of Finnair flights was 85.4%, which is 3.0 percentage pointshigher than in October 2007. Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights went up3.0 points and was 87.1%