Reading Time: < 1 minute PLAY carried 56,601 passengers in May, a 54% increase from the previous month when PLAY carried 36,669 passengers. In May, the load factor was approximately 70%. CEO Birgir Jónsson commented, “May is traditionally quite a challenging month in aviation as capacity is being ramped up for the peak summer season, but the demand is not […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air reported a considerable rise in passenger numbers for April as air travel continued to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The budget airline carried over 3.62mln passengers in April, a surge of 542% from the same month last year, with capacity jumping 355.7% to 4.34mln seats. The load factor that measures the percentage of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair said it flew 10.6 million passengers in September, whereas it carried 5.2 million passengers the same month last year. In August this year, however, the carrier moved 11.1 million passengers. While not up to the airline’s summer standards, the month outperformed many pre-COVID-19 winter months. Ryanair’s overall results are far better than its rival […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute WestJet announced July 2017 traffic results with a load factor of 85.6 per cent, an increase of 0.4 percentage points year over year. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs), or traffic, increased 6.8 per cent year over year, and capacity, measured in available seat miles (ASMs), grew 6.4 per cent over the same period. The airline flew […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia’s Aeroflot Group carried 43.4 million passengers in 2016, up 10.3% compared to 39.4 million passengers in 2015. Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport-based Aeroflot Airlines carried 29 million passengers, up 11% compared to 26.1 million in 2015. In addition to Aeroflot Airlines, Aeroflot Group includes Saint Petersburg-based Rossiya Airlines, Moscow-based low-cost carrier Pobeda Airlines and Russian Far […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute KLM has carried 30.4 million passengers last year – a new record. This is an increase of 6.4% compared to 2015. The increase was highest on European routes (7.8%), where we carried more than 20 million passengers for the first time. Load factor rose slightly by 0.8 of a percentage point compared to 2015. “The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair released December traffic statistics as follows: Traffic grew 20% to 9.0m customers. Load factor rose 3% points to 94%. Rolling annual traffic to Dec grew 15% to 117m customers. Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: “Ryanair’s December traffic grew by 20% to 9.0m customers, while our load factor jumped 3% points to 94%, on the back […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lufthansa Group transported around 7.6 million passengers in November which corresponds to an increase of 5.9 percent compared to the previous year. The seat kilometres offered increased by 9.3 percent and sales were simultaneously up by 10.1 percent. Load factor thus increased by 0.5 percent to 75.8 percent. Austrian Airlines was able to record […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that it expects the global airline industry to make a net profit in 2017 of $29.8 billion. On forecast total revenues of $736 billion, that represents a 4.1% net profit margin. This will be the third consecutive year (and the third year in the industry’s history) in which […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair released November traffic statistics as follows: traffic grew 15% to 8.8m customers, load factor rose 2% points to 95%, rolling annual traffic to Nov grew 16% to 115.5m customers.   Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: Ryanair’s November traffic grew by 15% to 8.8m customers, on the back of lower fares and the continuing success of […]