In June, Finnair carried nearly 1.4 million passengers, 11.9% more than in the corresponding period of 2018 - Finnair has hailed this as its highest number ever.
The overall capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres (ASK) increased in June by 11.2%. Finnair's traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) increased by 12.2%, and the Passenger Load Factor (PLF) increased year-on-year by 0.8 percentage points to 86.2%.
Finnair’s long-haul capacity increased year-on-year with three new A350 aircraft.
The ASK growth in Asian traffic was 11.5%, mainly due to additional frequencies to Hong Kong and Osaka. The North American capacity increased by 33.7% following the addition of Los Angeles in March and frequency additions to San Francisco compared to previous year.
In European traffic the ASKs
were up by 7.1%. The growth derived from one new narrow-body aircraft
year-on-year, additional seating capacity in some of the existing narrow-body
aircraft and on average longer routes. The added capacity was allocated to destinations
such as Stockholm, St Petersburg, London and Moscow and new seasonal
destinations Hannover, Trondheim and Bologna. Capacity in domestic traffic
increased by 3.3%.
Passenger numbers increased in
Asian traffic by 8.8%, in North American traffic by 27.2%, in European traffic
by 13.2% and in domestic traffic by 5.2%.
Available scheduled cargo tonne kilometres increased by 15.4% year-on-year. Revenue scheduled cargo tonne kilometres increased by 9% mostly driven by the positive cargo market development in Scandinavia and Finland.