Rise in passenger number / Load factor : Air Berlin / Air Canada / WestJet

Titlu : Air Berlin March Passenger Numbers Rise 4.8 Pct
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Autor : Reuters
Data : 07/04/2010

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Air Berlin, Germany's second-biggest airline, said the number of passengers its planes carried in March rose by 4.8 percent year-on-year.

Passenger volume rose to 2.403 million in the month, Air Berlin said on Wednesday.

But its load factor narrowed to 72.3 percent from 74.0 percent a year earlier as the carrier added capacity.

Airlines are reeling from the aviation industry's worst year ever, in which demand dropped faster than capacity was cut. Air Berlin started adding more seats again in November.

Titlu : Air Canada March Load Factor Improves
Sursa : http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1270594481.html
Autor : Reuters
Data : 06/04/2010

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Air Canada said on Tuesday that its load factor was 82.1 percent in March, up 1.4 percentage points from March 2009.

Traffic jumped 9.6 percent to 4.23 billion revenue passenger miles as capacity climbed 7.7 percent to 5.16 billion available seat miles.

Chief executive Calin Rovinescu said he was encouraged that traffic rose in domestic, trans-border and international segments, the latter by a hefty 14.4 percent.

"We continue to manage and deploy our capacity effectively and retain the loyalty of our customers while attracting new ones," Rovinescu said in a statement.

Titlu : WestJet Passenger Levels Climb In March
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Autor : Reuters
Data : 06/04/2010

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WestJet Airlines said on Tuesday that passenger levels were higher in March, with customers flying more as pressure from the economic downturn eased.

WestJet, Canada's second-largest carrier, said its March load factor rose 1.9 percentage points from March 2009 to 83.8 percent, even with a big rise in its capacity.

The Calgary-based airline said it flew 94,000 more passengers last month compared with the year-earlier period, as the economy strengthened.

Capacity, measured in available seat miles, rose 7.4 percent to 1.63 billion as it increased space to southern vacation destinations.

However, that rise was outmatched by an increase in customers, measured in revenue passenger miles, which rose 10 percent to 1.37 billion from 1.25 billion in March 2009.

"WestJet's increased capacity... (was) deployed into southern markets and benefited from WestJet's strong brand and strengthening sales channels," Gregg Saretsky, WestJet's recently appointed chief executive, said in a statement.

"We continue to draw from our entire route network to fill our southbound aircraft with a healthy mix of WestJet and WestJet Vacations guests," Saretsky said.

The company said the rise in traffic was encouraging but it still expects a decline in revenue per available seat mile of up to 3 percent for the first quarter of the year.