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airberlin: Stable load factor on decreasing capacity and traffic for November

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In November 2016, while capacity was reduced by 4.4 percent, airberlin recorded a virtually stable load factor featuring only a minor decrease of 0.6 percentage points, to 81.1 percent, as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year.

airberlin’s accumulated load factor increased by 0.2 percentage points, to 84.7 percent.

In line with the continuous capacity consolidation, the number of passengers traveling on airberlin in November declined by 6.9 percent, to 1,808,853 passengers.

The revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) decreased by 5.1 percent to 2.972 billion kilometers in yearly comparison. The number of available seat kilometers (ASK) decreased by 4.4 percent in comparison with the corresponding month of the previous year.

November 2016
Total 2016
Capacity2.367.208 (-4,4%)33.436.091 (-4,3%)
Number of Passengers1.808.853 (-6,9%)27.274.777 (-4,6%)
ASK in millions
3.663 (-4,4%)50.689 (-3,0%)
RPK in in millions2.972 (-5,1%)42.952 (-2,7%)
Load factor in %81,1 (-0,6 PP)84,7 (+0,2 PP)

8 December 2016

This post was published on 9 December 2016 11:39

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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