Finnair reports passenger numbers up by 6.6% in January 2005

Airline Industry Information, Feb 9, 2005

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Finnish airline Finnair Plc reported on Wednesday (9 February) that its total number of passengers carried had increased by 6.6% to 621,200 passengers in January 2005, as compared to the same month in 2004.

The total traffic (RPKs or revenue passenger kilometres), including both scheduled and leisure traffic, increased by 6.3%, and the capacity (ASK) increased by 4.1%.

As a result the passenger load factor for total traffic increased by 1.5 percentage points to 73.1% in January 2005, as compared to January 2004.

The number of scheduled passengers increased by 7.8% to 517,200, while the total scheduled traffic (RPKs) increased by 12.3% and capacity (ASK) by 5.3%.

As a result the passenger load factor for scheduled traffic increased by 4.1 percentage points to 65.0% in January 2005, as compared to January 2004.

Finnair said that its Stockholm-based subsidiary flynordic continued to gain market share in January 2005 and carried 68,500 passengers, up 62.9%, on its Scandinavian routes.

Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS carried 58,700 passengers, up 420.1%, on routes between Helsinki and the Baltic capitals and within Southern Finland.

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