Company Watch -Finnair.

Jan 8, 2007

Finnair Group airlines together transported 659,886 passengers, up 0.7 percent year-on-year in December. Finnair Group carried last year about 8.8 million passengers, 3.2 percent more than a year ago. Passenger load factor grew by 2.5 percentage points to 75.2 percent, in scheduled traffic 3.9 percentage points to 71.6 percent. Jan 9, 2007

Finnair said its unit revenues, based on RPKs, were in the fourth quarter on a par with the year ago period, but unit revenue for 2006 fell 3 percent. The group said higher ticket prices had not been enough to compensate for increased costs, such as fuel costs. In Asian traffic RPK was up 29.8 percent, but due to even sharper capacity increase the passenger load factor fell 2.3 percentage points to 72.6 percent, it said. Jan 9, 2007

Finnish national carrier Finnair's passenger traffic rose year-on-year in December, boosted by strong demand for Asian flights, it said on Tuesday. Finnair's passenger revenue kilometres (RPKs) rose 9.1 percent to 1.56 billion in December, after a 2.3 percent increase in November, it said in a statement. The overall passenger load factor -- a measure of how well an airline fills its seats -- rose 1.2 percentage points to 75 percent. Jan 9, 2007 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: [e-mail]

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