Despite Finnair’s overall capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) increasing 3.9% in March year-on-year, total passengers carried stood at 918,900; 3.6% less than in March 2023. Traffic for the month increased by 0.3% and passenger load factor declined by 2.7 percentage points to 75.0%.
Available seat kilometres increased most substantially in the Asian market at 13.5% year-on-year, including additional flights to Japan and South Korea. ASKs within Europe were also marginally up at 2.1%. However, North Atlantic capacity decreased by 11.6% and Middle Eastern capacity also saw a decline of 7.3% (with the latter negatively impacted by cancelled flights to Israel). Domestic ASKs increased by 4.9%.
North Atlantic traffic also saw the sharpest drop in passenger numbers (17.9%), followed by Middle Eastern traffic (down 7.3%) and a decline of 0.5% in European traffic. Despite ASKs to Asia increasing, passenger numbers to the region were also down 3.5%. RPKs saw the sharpest growth in Asian traffic (an increase of 6.9% year-on-year) but decreased in all other sectors, including the largest decline in North American traffic (down 7.2%).
During March 2024, 83.7% of all Finnair flights arrived on schedule.
Finnair passengers slightly down in March 2024
