Published on : Tuesday, May 27, 2014
JSC Aeroflot announces operating results of the Company and Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) for April 2014 and the first four months of 2014. In April the Aeroflot Russian Airlines and Aeroflot Group achieved faster growth than the Russian airline market as a whole in several key areas, including passenger traffic, revenue passenger kilometres and passenger load factor.
Highlights
Aeroflot standalone:
· Passenger traffic in April 2014 totalled 1.91 mln. This represented 20.0% year-on-year growth, significantly above the overall Russian industry growth rate for the period of 5.9%. This increase was primarily due to a 35.7% year-on-year rise in domestic traffic, driven in part by additional available capacity. International traffic rose 8.9% year-on-year in April 2014. For 4M 2014, passenger traffic totalled 6.89 mln, a 16.5% year-on-year increase and faster than the 9.1% year-on-year increase for the industry as a whole during the same period.
· Revenue passenger kilometres (“RPK”) for April 2014 totalled 5.38 bln, a year-on-year increase of 17.0%. RPKs for domestic flights were up 28.8% year-on-year, while RPKs on international flights also grew at the double-digit rate or 11.5%. Aeroflot’s achieved strong growth in April 2014 despite a minimal year-on-year increase of the industry as a whole (0.9%), and the Company accounted for approximately 1/3 of the entire Russian airline sector’s RPKs during the month. For 4M 2014, RPKs increased 12.2% year-on-year to 19.78 bln. This growth was also faster than the 5.7% year-on-year increase for the industry as a whole.
· In the first four months of 2014 the Company expanded its fleet, including 11 new Airbus A320s, one new Boeing 737-800 and four new Boeing 777-300ERs. These additions contributed to a 14.5% year-on-year rise in available seat kilometres (“ASK”) for April 2014 and a 14.3% increase for 4M 2014. The new factory-direct planes also contributed to the ongoing modernisation of the fleet, which is now one of the youngest in Europe.
· Higher RPK growth rates vs. ASK contributed to a year-on-year increase in the passenger load factor of 1.7 percentage points to 79.3%, with higher load factors for both domestic and international flights. Aeroflot’s load factor outperformed that of the industry as a whole both in absolute terms and in terms of growth, with the Russian airlines sector seeing 0.1 percentage point year-on-year growth to a load factor of 77.1% in April 2014.
Tags: Aeroflot Announces Traffic Statistics for April and 4M 2014, Airline News
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