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Aeroflot Group passenger traffic up 14.6% in 5M 2019, 12.0% in May

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Aeroflot PJSC today announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for May and 5M 2019[1].

5M 2019 Operating Highlights

In 5M 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 22.5 million passengers, up 14.6% year-on-year. Aeroflot airline carried 14.5 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%.

Group and Company RPKs increased by 15.0% and 9.6% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 15.6% year-on-year for the Group and by 10.2% year-on-year for the Company.

The passenger load factor decreased by 0.4 p.p. year-on-year to 78.3% for Aeroflot Group and decreased by 0.4 p.p. to 76.3% for Aeroflot airline.

May 2019 Operating Highlights

In May 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 5.0 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 12.0%. Aeroflot airline carried 3.0 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%.

Group and Company RPKs were up 12.1% and 6.7% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 12.6% for Aeroflot Group and by 7.6% for Aeroflot airline.

Aeroflot Group’s passenger load factor was 77.0%, representing a 0.3 percentage point decrease versus the same period a year earlier. The passenger load factor at Aeroflot – Russian Airlines decreased by 0.6 percentage points year-on-year to 74.2%.

Fleet update

In May 2019 one Airbus A319, one Airbus A320 and one SSJ100 were phased out. As of 31 May 2019, the Group fleet had 367 aircraft.

Aeroflot airline phased out one Airbus A320 aircraft and one SSJ100. As of 31 May 2019, the Company fleet had 252 aircraft.

Net changes in the fleetNumber of aircraft[2]

as of 31.05.2019 

May 20195M 2019
Aeroflot Group-3+1367
Aeroflot airline-2-1252

 

Aeroflot Group Operating Results

May 2019May 2018Change 5M 20195M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX4,976.74,442.212.0%22,477.219,612.714.6%
– international2,253.21,960.514.9%10,119.08,699.616.3%
– domestic2,723.52,481.69.7%12,358.210,913.013.2%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn12,591.511,232.512.1%58,377.750,748.915.0%
– international7,345.96,431.514.2%35,288.230,343.116.3%
– domestic5,245.64,801.09.3%23,089.620,405.813.2%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn16,352.514,528.912.6%74,579.764,496.215.6%
– international9,822.08,530.515.1%45,549.538,991.716.8%
– domestic6,530.45,998.48.9%29,030.225,504.513.8%
Passenger load factor, %77.0%77.3%(0.3 p.p.)78.3%78.7%(0.4,p.p.)
– international74.8%75.4%(0.6 p.p.)77.5%77.8%(0.3,p.p.)
– domestic80.3%80.0%0.3 p.p.79.5%80.0%(0.5,p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes24,676.723,951.43.0%115,796.2110,615.54.7%
– international14,190.913,395.45.9%66,737.163,129.65.7%
– domestic10,485.810,556.0(0.7%)49,059.147,485.83.3%
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn102.6102.20.5%481.8476.91.0%
– international65.862.94.6%307.2300.62.2%
– domestic36.939.3(6.2%)174.6176.3(1.0%)
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn1,235.91,113.111.0%5,735.85,044.313.7%
– international726.9641.713.3%3,483.13,031.514.9%
– domestic509.0471.48.0%2,252.62,012.811.9%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,945.51,711.313.7%8,864.57,611.516.5%
– international1,167.2999.616.8%5,467.84,624.118.2%
– domestic778.4711.79.4%3,396.72,987.313.7%
Revenue load factor, %63.5%65.0%(1.5 p.p.)64.7%66.3%(1.6,p.p.)
– international62.3%64.2%(1.9 p.p.)63.7%65.6%(1.9,p.p.)
– domestic65.4%66.2%(0.8 p.p.)66.3%67.4%(1.1,p.p.)
Revenue flights37,91534,5119.9%176,124155,07413.6%
– international16,20014,56111.3%74,44464,85814.8%
– domestic21,71519,9508.8%101,68090,21612.7%
Flight hours 104,50394,38910.7%486,261424,33814.6%

 

Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Operating Results

May 2019May 2018Change 5M 20195M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX2,983.42,809.7 6.2% 14,489.313,023.6 11.3%
– international1,567.81,398.6 12.1%7,587.16,737.1 12.6%
– domestic1,415.71,411.1 0.3%6,902.26,286.5 9.8%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn8,119.47,608.96.7%39,867.136,371.49.6%
– international5,511.24,834.7 14.0%27,337.424,247.9 12.7%
– domestic2,608.22,774.2 (6.0%)12,529.712,123.4 3.4%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn10,938.410,169.5 7.6% 52,231.047,407.7 10.2%
– international7,631.26,680.5 14.2%36,109.732,122.3 12.4%
– domestic3,307.23,489.0 (5.2%)16,121.215,285.5 5.5%
Passenger load factor, %74.2%74.8% (0.6 p.p.)76.3%76.7% (0.4 p.p.)
– international72.2%72.4%(0.2 p.p.)75.7%75.5%  0.2 p.p.
– domestic78.9%79.5%(0.6 p.p.)77.7%79.3% (1.6 p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes17,299.118,182.2 (4.9%)82,331.984,326.0 (2.4%)
– international12,239.512,013.9 1.9%56,836.557,298.1 (0.8%)
– domestic5,059.66,168.3 (18.0%)25,495.327,027.9 (5.7%)
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn80.385.6 (6.2%)373.7398.1 (6.1%)
– international60.759.1 2.7%276.2284.0 (2.7%)
– domestic19.626.5 (26.2%)97.5114.1 (14.5%)
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn811.0770.4 5.3% 3,961.73,671.5 7.9%
– international556.7494.2 12.6%2,736.52,466.3 11.0%
– domestic254.3276.2 (7.9%)1,225.21,205.2 1.7%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,319.11,221.7 8.0% 6,279.25,690.0 10.4%
– international932.2801.9 16.3%4,407.73,885.1 13.5%
– domestic386.8419.8 (7.9%)1,871.51,804.9 3.7%
Revenue load factor, %61.5%63.1% (1.6 p.p.)63.1%64.5%   (1.4 p.p.)
– international59.7%61.6% (1.9 p.p.)62.1%63.5% (1.4 p.p.)
– domestic65.7%65.8%(0.0 p.p.)65.5%66.8%  (1.3 p.p.)
Revenue flights24,39322,597 7.9% 118,091104,457 13.1%
– international12,08011,033 9.5%57,90651,948 11.5%
– domestic12,31311,564 6.5%60,18552,509 14.6%
Flight hours 70,29164,334 9.3% 340,300301,071 13.0%

 

[1] Management accounts.

[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.

Moscow, 25 June 2019

This post was published on 25 June 2019 17:18

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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