airBaltic Load Factor improves in May 2013

Riga. Latvian airline airBaltic carried 268,892 passengers in May 2013 in its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. During the first five months of 2013, airBaltic transported a total of 1,043,315 passengers.

The airline operated 17,854 flights in the first five months of 2013, or 8% less than in the first five months of 2012 when airBaltic operated 19,382 flights. In May 2013, airBaltic operated 4,179 flights. For summer 2013, airBaltic has introduced six new destinations – Prague (Czech Republic), Heviz-Balaton (Hungary), Olbia (Sardinia, Italy), Rijeka (Croatia), Larnaca (Cyprus), and Malta.

The airline achieved a 1 percentage point improvement of load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, to 71% in May 2013, comparing with the same month in 2012.

The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 85.2% in May 2013. This means that 85 of every 100 airBaltic flights in May departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes.