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Aeroflot Group passenger traffic up 11.4% in 8M 2019, 7.1% in August

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Aeroflot PJSC today announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for August and 8M 2019 [1].

8M 2019 Operating Highlights

In 8M 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 41.0 million passengers, up 11.4% year-on-year. Aeroflot airline carried 25.2 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%.

Group and Company RPKs increased by 11.8% and 6.6% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 13.0% year-on-year for the Group and by 8.0% year-on-year for the Company.

The passenger load factor decreased by 0.9 p.p. year-on-year to 82.4% for Aeroflot Group and decreased by 1.1 p.p. to 80.0% for Aeroflot airline.

August 2019 Operating Highlights

In August 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 6.4 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. Aeroflot airline carried 3.7 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%.

Group and Company RPKs were up 6.8% and 1.2% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 8.0% for Aeroflot Group and by 3.0% for Aeroflot airline.

Aeroflot Group’s passenger load factor was 90.2%, representing a 1.0 percentage point decrease versus the same period a year earlier. The passenger load factor at Aeroflot – Russian Airlines decreased by 1.6 percentage points year-on-year to 87.8%.

Fleet update

There were no changes in the Aeroflot Group fleet in August 2019. As of 31 August 2019, Group and Company fleet had 364 and 249 aircraft, respectively.

Net changes in the fleetNumber of aircraft [2]

as of 31.08.2019 

August 20198M 2019
Aeroflot Group–-2364
Aeroflot airline–-4249

 

Aeroflot Group Operating Results

August 2019August 2018Change8M 20198M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX6,427.25,999.9 7.1% 41,045.536,842.4 11.4%
– international2,859.52,647.7 8.0%18,380.916,351.0 12.4%
– domestic3,567.73,352.3 6.4%22,664.720,491.3 10.6%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn16,359.415,319.46.8%105,659.794,513.211.8%
– international9,173.68,522.9 7.6%61,873.254,922.4 12.7%
– domestic7,185.86,796.5 5.7%43,786.439,590.8 10.6%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn18,127.316,784.1 8.0% 128,209.5113,434.7 13.0%
– international10,338.69,566.6 8.1%76,377.167,040.4 13.9%
– domestic7,788.77,217.5 7.9%51,832.446,394.3 11.7%
Passenger load factor, %90.2%91.3% (1.0 p.p.)82.4%83.3% (0.9 p.p.)
– international88.7%89.1% (0.4 p.p.)81.0%81.9% (0.9 p.p.)
– domestic92.3%94.2% (1.9 p.p.)84.5%85.3%  (0.9 p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes29,173.128,724.7 1.6% 199,724.9190,335.9 4.9%
– international14,479.015,667.5 (7.6%)110,760.4106,335.8 4.2%
– domestic14,694.113,057.2 12.5%88,964.584,000.1 5.9%
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn117.6122.1 (3.6%)824.7815.8 1.1%
– international66.172.2 (8.4%)510.3501.4 1.8%
– domestic51.549.9 3.3%314.4314.4 0.0%
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn1,590.01,500.8 5.9% 10,334.19,322.0 10.9%
– international891.7839.3 6.3%6,078.85,444.4 11.7%
– domestic698.3661.6 5.5%4,255.23,877.6 9.7%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn2,156.21,982.5 8.8% 15,246.213,395.5 13.8%
– international1,227.91,119.6 9.7%9,131.17,911.6 15.4%
– domestic928.2862.9 7.6%6,115.05,483.9 11.5%
Revenue load factor, %73.7%75.7% (2.0 p.p.)67.8%69.6% (1.8 p.p.)
– international72.6%75.0% (2.3 p.p.)66.6%68.8% (2.2 p.p.)
– domestic75.2%76.7% (1.4 p.p.)69.6%70.7% (1.1 p.p.)
Revenue flights41,50038,812 6.9% 298,019268,492 11.0%
– international17,06816,361 4.3%125,196112,560 11.2%
– domestic24,43222,451 8.8%172,823155,932 10.8%
Flight hours 113,256105,458 7.4% 819,508731,904 12.0%

 

Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Operating Results

August 2019August 2018Change8M 20198M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX3,690.23,627.1 1.7% 25,176.323,471.5 7.3%
– international1,935.91,841.7 5.1%13,184.112,027.8 9.6%
– domestic1,754.31,785.4 (1.7%)11,992.211,443.7 4.8%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn9,965.29,847.51.2%68,759.764,519.26.6%
– international6,699.66,275.1 6.8%46,821.542,240.7 10.8%
– domestic3,265.63,572.3 (8.6%)21,938.222,278.5 (1.5%)
Available Seat Kilometres, mn11,346.811,014.5 3.0% 85,926.379,553.1 8.0%
– international7,734.17,208.1 7.3%59,313.053,174.0 11.5%
– domestic3,612.73,806.4 (5.1%)26,613.326,379.0 0.9%
Passenger load factor, %87.8%89.4%(1.6 p.p.)80.0%81.1%  (1.1 p.p.)
– international86.6%87.1%(0.4 p.p.)78.9%79.4%  (0.5 p.p.)
– domestic90.4%93.9% (3.5 p.p.)82.4%84.5%  (2.0 p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes18,357.920,334.4 (9.7%)137,029.9140,197.8 (2.3%)
– international11,988.813,812.5 (13.2%)94,070.295,045.6 (1.0%)
– domestic6,369.26,521.9 (2.3%)42,959.745,152.2 (4.9%)
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn83.796.0 (12.9%)625.5661.6 (5.5%)
– international59.168.6 (13.9%)461.0471.5 (2.2%)
– domestic24.627.4 (10.2%)164.5190.1 (13.5%)
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn980.6982.3 (0.2%)6,813.86,468.4 5.3%
– international662.0633.4 4.5%4,674.94,273.2 9.4%
– domestic318.5348.9 (8.7%)2,138.92,195.2 (2.6%)
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,365.81,321.4 3.4% 10,342.09,554.9 8.2%
– international946.1866.0 9.2%7,249.16,420.7 12.9%
– domestic419.7455.4 (7.8%)3,092.93,134.2 (1.3%)
Revenue load factor, %71.8%74.3% (2.5 p.p.)65.9%67.7%  (1.8 p.p.)
– international70.0%73.1% (3.2 p.p.)64.5%66.6%  (2.1 p.p.)
– domestic75.9%76.6% (0.7 p.p.)69.2%70.0%  (0.9 p.p.)
Revenue flights25,90624,736 4.7% 194,161176,721 9.9%
– international12,47412,152 2.6%95,10387,230 9.0%
– domestic13,43212,584 6.7%99,05889,491 10.7%
Flight hours 73,20669,788 4.9% 555,868504,269 10.2%

 

[1] Management accounts.

[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.

Moscow, 20 September 2019

This post was published on 20 September 2019 15:10

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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