Aeroflot PJSC today announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for November and 11M 2018[1].
11M 2018 Operating Highlights
In 11M 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 51.4 million passengers, up 10.8% year-on-year. Aeroflot airline carried 32.8 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%.
Group and Company RPKs increased by 9.6% and 6.5% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 9.5% year-on-year for the Group and by 8.0% year-on-year for the Company.
The passenger load factor remained flat year-on-year at 83.2% for Aeroflot Group and decreased by 1.2 p.p. to 81.0% for Aeroflot airline.
November 2018 Operating Highlights
In November 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 4.3 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 16.2%. Aeroflot airline carried 2.9 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 13.8%.
Group and Company RPKs were up 14.8% and 9.9% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 16.5% for Aeroflot Group and by 12.7% for Aeroflot airline.
Aeroflot Group’s passenger load factor was 78.4%, representing a 1.1 percentage point decrease versus the same period a year earlier. The passenger load factor at Aeroflot – Russian Airlines decreased by 2.0 percentage points year-on-year to 76.0%.
Fleet update
In November 2018, Aeroflot Group added three Boeing 737-800. One Airbus A321 was phased-out. As of 30 November 2018, the Group fleet had 366 aircraft.
Aeroflot airline added two Boeing 737-800 aircraft as well as phased-out one Airbus A321 aircraft. As of 30 November 2018, the Company fleet had 252 aircraft.
| Net changes in the fleet | Number of aircraft[2] as of 30.11.2018 | ||
| November 2018 | 11M 2018 | ||
| Aeroflot Group | +2 | +40 | 366 |
| Aeroflot airline | +1 | +28 | 252 |
Aeroflot Group Operating Results
| November 2018 | November 2017 | Change | 11M 2018 | 11M 2017 | Change | |
| Passengers carried, thousand PAX | 4,334.1 | 3,730.4 | 16.2% | 51,374.7 | 46,371.5 | 10.8% |
| – international | 1,902.4 | 1,662.3 | 14.4% | 22,823.9 | 20,880.2 | 9.3% |
| – domestic | 2,431.7 | 2,068.1 | 17.6% | 28,550.8 | 25,491.2 | 12.0% |
| Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn | 11,190.6 | 9,744.7 | 14.8% | 131,922.4 | 120,397.1 | 9.6% |
| – international | 6,658.5 | 5,896.5 | 12.9% | 76,557.8 | 71,106.8 | 7.7% |
| – domestic | 4,532.1 | 3,848.2 | 17.8% | 55,364.5 | 49,290.3 | 12.3% |
| Available Seat Kilometres, mn | 14,273.3 | 12,249.8 | 16.5% | 158,520.6 | 144,715.8 | 9.5% |
| – international | 8,862.0 | 7,557.8 | 17.3% | 93,905.1 | 85,707.5 | 9.6% |
| – domestic | 5,411.3 | 4,692.0 | 15.3% | 64,615.5 | 59,008.3 | 9.5% |
| Passenger load factor, % | 78.4% | 79.5% | (1.1 p.p.) | 83.2% | 83.2% | – |
| – international | 75.1% | 78.0% | (2.9 p.p.) | 81.5% | 83.0% | (1.4 p.p.) |
| – domestic | 83.8% | 82.0% | 1.7 p.p. | 85.7% | 83.5% | 2.2 p.p. |
| Cargo and mail carried, tonnes | 27,660.9 | 27,456.8 | 0.7% | 275,619.4 | 246,173.4 | 12.0% |
| – international | 16,795.2 | 16,330.8 | 2.8% | 155,033.6 | 138,246.5 | 12.1% |
| – domestic | 10,865.6 | 11,126.1 | (2.3%) | 120,585.8 | 107,926.9 | 11.7% |
| Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn | 118.1 | 122.5 | (3.7%) | 1,181.8 | 1,114.8 | 6.0% |
| – international | 78.5 | 80.3 | (2.3%) | 727.6 | 683.2 | 6.5% |
| – domestic | 39.5 | 42.2 | (6.3%) | 454.2 | 431.5 | 5.3% |
| Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,125.2 | 999.5 | 12.6% | 13,054.8 | 11,950.6 | 9.2% |
| – international | 677.8 | 610.9 | 10.9% | 7,617.8 | 7,082.9 | 7.6% |
| – domestic | 447.4 | 388.6 | 15.1% | 5,437.0 | 4,867.7 | 11.7% |
| Available Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,706.1 | 1,459.4 | 16.9% | 18,742.9 | 17,363.4 | 7.9% |
| – international | 1,072.5 | 907.7 | 18.1% | 11,105.8 | 10,263.4 | 8.2% |
| – domestic | 633.7 | 551.7 | 14.9% | 7,637.2 | 7,100.0 | 7.6% |
| Revenue load factor, % | 66.0% | 68.5% | (2.5 p.p.) | 69.7% | 68.8% | 0.8 p.p. |
| – international | 63.2% | 67.3% | (4.1 p.p.) | 68.6% | 69.0% | (0.4 p.p.) |
| – domestic | 70.6% | 70.4% | 0.2 p.p. | 71.2% | 68.6% | 2.6 p.p. |
| Revenue flights | 34,369 | 29,403 | 16.9% | 376,191 | 338,474 | 11.1% |
| – international | 14,677 | 12,380 | 18.6% | 158,455 | 140,890 | 12.5% |
| – domestic | 19,692 | 17,023 | 15.7% | 217,736 | 197,584 | 10.2% |
| Flight hours | 94,524 | 80,932 | 16.8% | 1,026,695 | 926,217 | 10.8% |
Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Operating Results
| November 2018 | November 2017 | Change | 11M 2018 | 11M 2017 | Change | ||
| Passengers carried, thousand PAX | 2,932.5 | 2,575.8 | 13.8% | 32,847.3 | 30,277.7 | 8.5% | |
| – international | 1,471.9 | 1,339.5 | 9.9% | 16,733.7 | 15,801.7 | 5.9% | |
| – domestic | 1,460.6 | 1,236.3 | 18.1% | 16,113.7 | 14,476.0 | 11.3% | |
| Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn | 7,947.2 | 7,233.9 | 9.9% | 90,062.4 | 84,573.2 | 6.5% | |
| – international | 5,341.9 | 4,852.1 | 10.1% | 58,768.6 | 55,778.2 | 5.4% | |
| – domestic | 2,605.4 | 2,381.8 | 9.4% | 31,293.8 | 28,795.0 | 8.7% | |
| Available Seat Kilometres, mn | 10,452.0 | 9,277.4 | 12.7% | 111,129.2 | 102,862.7 | 8.0% | |
| – international | 7,279.0 | 6,386.1 | 14.0% | 74,245.0 | 68,781.1 | 7.9% | |
| – domestic | 3,173.0 | 2,891.3 | 9.7% | 36,884.2 | 34,081.6 | 8.2% | |
| Passenger load factor, % | 76.0% | 78.0% | (2.0 p.p.) | 81.0% | 82.2% | (1.2 p.p.) | |
| – international | 73.4% | 76.0% | (2.6 p.p.) | 79.2% | 81.1% | (1.9 p.p.) | |
| – domestic | 82.1% | 82.4% | (0.3 p.p.) | 84.8% | 84.5% | 0.3 p.p. | |
| Cargo and mail carried, tonnes | 20,677.7 | 21,991.8 | (6.0%) | 203,095.5 | 205,852.4 | (1.3%) | |
| – international | 15,128.9 | 15,472.8 | (2.2%) | 138,175.2 | 134,690.5 | 2.6% | |
| – domestic | 5,548.8 | 6,519.0 | (14.9%) | 64,920.4 | 71,161.9 | (8.8%) | |
| Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn | 93.2 | 103.8 | (10.2%) | 952.7 | 958.1 | (0.6%) | |
| – international | 73.6 | 77.7 | (5.3%) | 682.1 | 669.4 | 1.9% | |
| – domestic | 19.6 | 26.1 | (24.8%) | 270.6 | 288.6 | (6.2%) | |
| Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn | 808.5 | 754.8 | 7.1% | 9,058.3 | 8,569.7 | 5.7% | |
| – international | 554.4 | 514.3 | 7.8% | 5,971.3 | 5,689.5 | 5.0% | |
| – domestic | 254.1 | 240.5 | 5.7% | 3,087.0 | 2,880.2 | 7.2% | |
| Available Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,263.4 | 1,121.7 | 12.6% | 13,366.3 | 12,548.7 | 6.5% | |
| – international | 902.2 | 782.4 | 15.3% | 8,996.4 | 8,433.6 | 6.7% | |
| – domestic | 361.2 | 339.3 | 6.5% | 4,369.9 | 4,115.1 | 6.2% | |
| Revenue load factor, % | 64.0% | 67.3% | (3.3 p.p.) | 67.8% | 68.3% | (0.5 p.p.) | |
| – international | 61.4% | 65.7% | (4.3 p.p.) | 66.4% | 67.5% | (1.1 p.p.) | |
| – domestic | 70.3% | 70.9% | (0.6 p.p.) | 70.6% | 70.0% | 0.6 p.p. | |
| Revenue flights | 23,853 | 20,289 | 17.6% | 248,748 | 222,822 | 11.6% | |
| – international | 11,656 | 10,199 | 14.3% | 122,347 | 110,652 | 10.6% | |
| – domestic | 12,197 | 10,090 | 20.9% | 126,401 | 112,170 | 12.7% | |
| Flight hours | 68,297 | 59,069 | 15.6% | 708,784 | 642,701 | 10.3% | |
[1] Management accounts.
[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.
Moscow, 26 December 2018