Austrian Airlines reports decline in passenger numbers
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Austrian Airlines carried more than 10.8 million passengers in the period January to December 2015, corresponding to a year-on-year decrease of three percent.
The decline reflects target capacity reductions in European flight traffic, the airline said. This particularly applies to the weak business in Russia and the crisis in Eastern Ukraine. In addition, flight service to long-haul destinations such as Dubai was terminated, and the traditional winter destination of Malé was removed from the flight schedule in the summer.
“In the past year we focused more strongly on revenues than on capacity. In 2016 we plan to generate a slight growth once again,” said chief commercial officer Andreas Otto. “We have also planned to increase bilateral flight service between Austria and Germany by deploying two additional aircraft. Moreover, we will expand our intercontinental network, and add two new long-haul destinations to our flight offering, namely Shanghai and Havana.”
Revenue passenger kilometres in 2015 fell by 1.3 percent to 18.2 million. Capacity utilisation (passenger load factor) was at an average of 78.0 percent, comprising a slight drop of 0.9 percent compared to 2014.
Austrian Airlines carried more than 711,000 passengers in the month of December 2015. This corresponds to a year-on-year decline of 4.5 percent.
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