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Aeroflot Group passenger traffic up 15.4% in 4 Months 2019 (13.2% in April)

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Aeroflot PJSC announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for April and 4M 2019[1].

4M 2019 Operating Highlights

In 4M 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 17.5 million passengers, up 15.4% year-on-year. Aeroflot airline carried 11.5 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%.

Group and Company RPKs increased by 15.9% and 10.4% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 16.5% year-on-year for the Group and by 10.9% year-on-year for the Company.

The passenger load factor decreased by 0.5 p.p. year-on-year to 78.6% for Aeroflot Group and decreased by 0.4 p.p. to 76.9% for Aeroflot airline.

April 2019 Operating Highlights

In April 2019, Aeroflot Group carried 4.7 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%. Aeroflot airline carried 3.1 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%.

Group and Company RPKs were up 13.6% and 8.7% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 13.8% for Aeroflot Group and by 7.7% for Aeroflot airline.

Aeroflot Group’s passenger load factor was 80.6%, representing a 0.1 percentage point decrease versus the same period a year earlier. The passenger load factor at Aeroflot – Russian Airlines increased by 0.7 percentage points year-on-year to 80.0%.

Fleet update

In April 2019, Aeroflot Group added one Boeing 737-800 aircraft. One Airbus A319 and one Airbus A321 were phased out. As of 30 April 2019, the Group fleet had 370 aircraft.

Aeroflot airline phased out one Airbus A321 aircraft. As of 30 April 2019, the Company fleet had 254 aircraft.

Net changes in the fleetNumber of aircraft[2]

as of 30.04.2019 

April 20194M 2019
Aeroflot Group-1+4370
Aeroflot airline-1+1254

 

Aeroflot Group Operating Results

April 2019April 2018Change 4M 20194M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX4,736.34,185.3 13.2% 17,500.415,170.5 15.4%
– international2,134.91,851.3 15.3%7,865.76,739.1 16.7%
– domestic2,601.42,334.1 11.5%9,634.78,431.4 14.3%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn12,242.710,773.213.6%45,785.939,516.415.9%
– international7,376.96,343.8 16.3%27,942.323,911.6 16.9%
– domestic4,865.84,429.4 9.9%17,843.715,604.8 14.3%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn15,182.913,343.7 13.8% 58,227.549,967.3 16.5%
– international9,180.37,957.3 15.4%35,727.530,461.2 17.3%
– domestic6,002.65,386.3 11.4%22,500.019,506.1 15.3%
Passenger load factor, %80.6%80.7%  (0.1 p.p.)78.6%79.1% (0.5 p.p.)
– international80.4%79.7%0.6 p.p.78.2%78.5% (0.3 p.p.)
– domestic81.1%82.2%(1.2 p.p.)79.3%80.0% (0.7 p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes26,128.723,997.9 8.9% 91,124.286,664.1 5.1%
– international15,386.513,723.9 12.1%52,548.249,734.2 5.7%
– domestic10,742.210,274.0 4.6%38,576.036,929.9 4.5%
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn109.8104.2 5.4% 379.1374.8 1.2%
– international71.866.4 8.2%241.4237.8 1.6%
– domestic37.937.8 0.4%137.7137.0 0.5%
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn1,211.61,073.8 12.8% 4,499.93,931.2 14.5%
– international735.8637.3 15.4%2,756.22,389.8 15.3%
– domestic475.9436.4 9.0%1,743.61,541.4 13.1%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,805.51,572.7 14.8% 6,919.05,900.2 17.3%
– international1,097.7941.8 16.5%4,300.63,624.6 18.7%
– domestic707.8630.8 12.2%2,618.42,275.6 15.1%
Revenue load factor, %67.1%68.3% (1.2 p.p.)65.0%66.6% (1.6 p.p.)
– international67.0%67.7% (0.6 p.p.)64.1%65.9% (1.8 p.p.)
– domestic67.2%69.2% (2.0 p.p.)66.6%67.7% (1.1 p.p.)
Revenue flights35,75232,027 11.6% 138,209120,563 14.6%
– international15,01813,428 11.8%58,24450,297 15.8%
– domestic20,73418,599 11.5%79,96570,266 13.8%
Flight hours 98,23387,998 11.6% 381,758329,949 15.7%

 

Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Operating Results

April 2019April 2018Change 4M 20194M 2018Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX3,053.22,819.9 8.3% 11,505.910,213.9 12.6%
– international1,639.31,439.1 13.9%6,019.35,338.5 12.8%
– domestic1,414.01,380.9 2.4%5,486.64,875.4 12.5%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn8,462.57,787.28.7%31,747.728,762.410.4%
– international5,901.55,088.5 16.0%21,826.319,413.2 12.4%
– domestic2,561.12,698.6 (5.1%)9,921.59,349.3 6.1%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn10,576.49,819.0 7.7% 41,292.537,238.2 10.9%
– international7,415.76,529.8 13.6%28,478.525,441.8 11.9%
– domestic3,160.73,289.2 (3.9%)12,814.011,796.5 8.6%
Passenger load factor, %80.0%79.3% 0.7 p.p. 76.9%77.2% (0.4 p.p.)
– international79.6%77.9% 1.7 p.p.76.6%76.3%    0.3 p.p.
– domestic81.0%82.0% (1.0 p.p.)77.4%79.3%  (1.8 p.p.)
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes19,200.718,596.0 3.3% 65,032.866,143.8 (1.7%)
– international13,643.912,518.9 9.0%44,597.145,284.2 (1.5%)
– domestic5,556.86,077.1 (8.6%)20,435.820,859.6 (2.0%)
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn87.288.0 (0.8%)293.4312.4 (6.1%)
– international66.462.7 5.9%215.5224.9 (4.2%)
– domestic20.825.3(17.7%)77.987.6 (11.0%)
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn848.9788.8 7.6% 3,150.72,901.1 8.6%
– international597.6520.7 14.8%2,179.81,972.0 10.5%
– domestic251.3268.1 (6.3%)970.9929.0 4.5%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,275.11,176.8 8.4% 4,960.14,468.3 11.0%
– international906.8786.3 15.3%3,475.43,083.2 12.7%
– domestic368.3390.4 (5.7%)1,484.71,385.1 7.2%
Revenue load factor, %66.6%67.0% (0.5 p.p.)63.5%64.9%   (1.4 p.p.)
– international65.9%66.2% (0.3 p.p.)62.7%64.0%    (1.2 p.p.)
– domestic68.2%68.7% (0.5 p.p.)65.4%67.1%  (1.7 p.p.)
Revenue flights23,56221,628 8.9% 93,69881,860 14.5%
– international11,63510,656 9.2%45,82640,915 12.0%
– domestic11,92710,972 8.7%47,87240,945 16.9%
Flight hours 67,88362,159 9.2% 270,009236,737 14.1%

 

 

[1] Management accounts.

[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.

 

Moscow, 24 May 2019

This post was published on 25 May 2019 17:48

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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