In December, Finnair’s overall capacity decreased by 1.5 per cent and traffic
measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 0.2 per cent year‐on‐year.
Passenger load factor was 77.0 per cent.
The capacity in Asian traffic decreased by 4.2 per cent and the traffic measured
in Revenue Passenger Kilometres by 3.2 per cent year‐on‐year.
The capacity in European traffic increased by 1.5 per cent and traffic measured
in Revenue Passenger Kilometres by 4.3 per cent year‐on‐year.
In October–December, the passenger unit revenue* per available seat kilometre
increased by 1.8 per cent year‐on‐year and totalled 5.26 euro cents.
“In the last quarter of 2014, the passenger unit revenue increased for the first
time since the first quarter of 2013, This positive development resulted
mainly from the improved passenger loads factors in almost all traffic areas,”
says Finnair CFO Erno Hildén.
In cargo, traffic measured in revenue tonne kilometres decreased by 0.9 per cent
and the overall capacity grew by 8.5 per cent year‐on‐year. The load factor fell
by 5.8 percentage points year-on-year and was 61.6 per cent.
In December, 82.2 per cent of all flights arrived on schedule (82.9).
Finnair changed its traffic reporting practices at the beginning of the winter
season and discontinued reporting leisure traffic as a separate traffic area.
These changes were communicated on 7 November 2014 with a separate release.