Finnair Traffic Performance December 2012

In December, Finnair traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres rose by 10.6 per cent and the overall capacity grew 2.4 per cent year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor improved by 5.7 percentage points and was 77.1 per cent.

Traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew year-on-year in all scheduled traffic areas apart from domestic traffic. Strongest growth was seen in long haul traffic and in Europe. Asian traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 12.5 per cent and traffic in Europe increased 15.4 per cent year‐on‐year.

In October-December, the unit revenue* per available seat kilometre grew by 2.2% year-on-year, and was 5.42 euro cents.

“In December, we saw continuing strong demand in in our traffic,” says Finnair CFO Erno Hildén. “Traffic growth continued to exceed the growth of overall capacity, contributing to the unit revenue improvement year-on-year.”

In December, leisure traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 2.7 per cent, as capacity decreased by 8.1 per cent year-on-year. The load factor improved by 9.1 percentage points and was 87.3 per cent.

In cargo, traffic measured in revenue tonne kilometres decreased by 5.1 per cent and the overall capacity by 12.3 per cent year-on-year. The load factor improved by 5.0 percentage points and was 65.7 per cent.

In December, the arrival punctuality fell significantly year-on-year due to exceptional weather conditions and airport capacity restrictions. In scheduled traffic, 64.7 per cent (82.1 per cent in December 2011) of flights arrived on schedule, 64.0 per cent (81.2 per cent) in all traffic.