SAS said it carried almost one and a half million passengers in the final month of 2022, an increase of 50% compared the previous year but down 12% month-on-month.
The overall annual increase in traffic was handled by the airline increasing capacity by 13% over the time, with the number of passengers taking load factor to over 70% for December 2022.
“We are concentrating on ramping up ahead of the expected busy summer season. During the month we released our extended summer program, with 20 new routes and more than 5000 weekly flights to more than 100 destinations," said Anko van der Werff, president and chief executive of SAS.