Austrian Airlines reports mixed results in May
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Austrian Airlines carried a total of 998,000 passengers in May, up more than 66,000 passengers on the previous month.
However, in a year-on-year comparison this represents a decrease in total passenger volume of 4.7 percent. Austrian Airlines attributed this to “the crises in Russia, the Ukraine and the Middle East”.
The flight offering in available seat kilometres (ASK) rose by 5.0 percent, mainly as a result of North Atlantic flights, which had not yet been part of the flight schedule in May 2014. Revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) were up by 0.9 percent. Capacity utilisation of the flights (passenger load factor) was 75.4 percent on average, thus higher than the figure of 73.7 percent for April 2015.
In the first five months of 2015, Austrian Airlines also cut back on its flight offering in Europe by 8.7 percent from the previous year, mainly due to the crises in Russia and the Ukraine. On balance, about 3.3 million passengers flew with Austrian Airlines in Europe. This corresponds to a decrease of 10.3 percent in a year-on-year comparison, in line with expectations. Capacity utilisation fell by 2.8 percentage points to 71.2 percent.
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