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Aeroflot Group passenger traffic up 16.2% in November 2018

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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 fleetNumber of aircraft[2]

as of 30.11.2018 

November 201811M 2018
Aeroflot Group+2+40366
Aeroflot airline+1+28252

 

Aeroflot Group Operating Results

November 2018November 2017Change 11M 201811M 2017Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX4,334.13,730.4 16.2% 51,374.746,371.5 10.8%
– international1,902.41,662.3 14.4%22,823.920,880.2 9.3%
– domestic2,431.72,068.1 17.6%28,550.825,491.2 12.0%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn11,190.69,744.714.8%131,922.4120,397.19.6%
– international6,658.55,896.5 12.9%76,557.871,106.8 7.7%
– domestic4,532.13,848.2 17.8%55,364.549,290.3 12.3%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn14,273.312,249.8 16.5% 158,520.6144,715.8 9.5%
– international8,862.07,557.8 17.3%93,905.185,707.5 9.6%
– domestic5,411.34,692.0 15.3%64,615.559,008.3 9.5%
Passenger load factor, %78.4%79.5% (1.1 p.p.)83.2%83.2% –
– international75.1%78.0% (2.9 p.p.)81.5%83.0% (1.4 p.p.)
– domestic83.8%82.0% 1.7 p.p.85.7%83.5% 2.2 p.p.
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes27,660.927,456.8 0.7% 275,619.4246,173.4 12.0%
– international16,795.216,330.8 2.8%155,033.6138,246.5 12.1%
– domestic10,865.611,126.1 (2.3%)120,585.8107,926.9 11.7%
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn118.1122.5 (3.7%)1,181.81,114.8 6.0%
– international78.580.3 (2.3%)727.6683.2 6.5%
– domestic39.542.2 (6.3%)454.2431.5 5.3%
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn1,125.2999.5 12.6% 13,054.811,950.6 9.2%
– international677.8610.9 10.9%7,617.87,082.9 7.6%
– domestic447.4388.6 15.1%5,437.04,867.7 11.7%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,706.11,459.4 16.9% 18,742.917,363.4 7.9%
– international1,072.5907.7 18.1%11,105.810,263.4 8.2%
– domestic633.7551.7 14.9%7,637.27,100.0 7.6%
Revenue load factor, %66.0%68.5% (2.5 p.p.)69.7%68.8% 0.8 p.p.
– international63.2%67.3% (4.1 p.p.)68.6%69.0% (0.4 p.p.)
– domestic70.6%70.4% 0.2 p.p.71.2%68.6%  2.6 p.p.
Revenue flights34,36929,403 16.9% 376,191338,474 11.1%
– international14,67712,380 18.6%158,455140,890 12.5%
– domestic19,69217,023 15.7%217,736197,584 10.2%
Flight hours 94,52480,932 16.8% 1,026,695926,217 10.8%

 

Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Operating Results

November 2018November 2017Change 11M 201811M 2017Change
Passengers carried, thousand PAX2,932.52,575.8 13.8% 32,847.330,277.7 8.5%
– international1,471.91,339.5 9.9%16,733.715,801.7 5.9%
– domestic1,460.61,236.3 18.1%16,113.714,476.0 11.3%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn7,947.27,233.99.9%90,062.484,573.26.5%
– international5,341.94,852.1 10.1%58,768.655,778.2 5.4%
– domestic2,605.42,381.8 9.4%31,293.828,795.0 8.7%
Available Seat Kilometres, mn10,452.09,277.4 12.7% 111,129.2102,862.7 8.0%
– international7,279.06,386.1 14.0%74,245.068,781.1 7.9%
– domestic3,173.02,891.3 9.7%36,884.234,081.6 8.2%
Passenger load factor, %76.0%78.0%(2.0 p.p.)81.0%82.2% (1.2 p.p.)
– international73.4%76.0%(2.6 p.p.)79.2%81.1% (1.9 p.p.)
– domestic82.1%82.4% (0.3 p.p.)84.8%84.5% 0.3 p.p.
Cargo and mail carried, tonnes20,677.721,991.8 (6.0%)203,095.5205,852.4 (1.3%)
– international15,128.915,472.8 (2.2%)138,175.2134,690.5 2.6%
– domestic5,548.86,519.0 (14.9%)64,920.471,161.9 (8.8%)
Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn93.2103.8 (10.2%)952.7958.1 (0.6%)
– international73.677.7 (5.3%)682.1669.4 1.9%
– domestic19.626.1 (24.8%)270.6288.6 (6.2%)
Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn808.5754.8 7.1% 9,058.38,569.7 5.7%
– international554.4514.3 7.8%5,971.35,689.5 5.0%
– domestic254.1240.5 5.7%3,087.02,880.2 7.2%
Available Tonne Kilometres, mn1,263.41,121.7 12.6% 13,366.312,548.7 6.5%
– international902.2782.4 15.3%8,996.48,433.6 6.7%
– domestic361.2339.3 6.5%4,369.94,115.1 6.2%
Revenue load factor, %64.0%67.3%(3.3 p.p.)67.8%68.3% (0.5 p.p.)
– international61.4%65.7%(4.3 p.p.)66.4%67.5%   (1.1 p.p.)
– domestic70.3%70.9%(0.6 p.p.)70.6%70.0%    0.6 p.p.
Revenue flights23,85320,289 17.6% 248,748222,822 11.6%
– international11,65610,199 14.3%122,347110,652 10.6%
– domestic12,19710,090 20.9%126,401112,170 12.7%
Flight hours 68,29759,069 15.6% 708,784642,701 10.3%

 

[1] Management accounts.

[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.

Moscow, 26 December 2018

This post was published on 26 December 2018 18:05

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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