Fuente : Austrian Airlines
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Record Traffic Result confirms strategy and efforts to achieve group wide improvements

July’s all-time high load factor of 80.9 %, 16.2 % growth in passenger volume and 15.9 % increase in revenue passenger kilometers

/noticias.info/ Traffic Result of the Austrian Airlines Group, January to July 2005

At 10.9 %, the traffic result – measured in revenue passenger kilometers on scheduled services (RPK) – was significantly above the figure for the previous year, while available seat kilometers increased by 6.3 %. When charter and holiday flights are also taken into consideration, the balance of revenue passenger kilometers actually rose by as much as 15.9 %. With 1,147,944 passengers carried, the Austrian Airlines Group recorded strong growth in passenger volume of 16.2 % in July compared to the same period in 2004. The load factor on scheduled services increased by 3.4 percentage points compared to the previous year, reaching an all-time high of 80.9 %.

In the first seven months of 2005, the Austrian Airlines Group achieved a traffic result which – when measured in revenue passenger kilometers on scheduled services (RPK) – resulted in an increase of 3.8 % compared to the figure for the same period the previous year. Available seat kilometers (ASK) expanded by 4.5 % in the period January to July 2005 compared to the same period last year. Taken cumulatively, the passenger load factor on scheduled services of 71.7 % is still slightly below (0.5 percentage points) the figure for last year. Overall, the Austrian Airlines Group carried 5,645,761 passengers on scheduled and charter flights in the period under review, some 4.4 % more than in the same period in 2004.

Vagn Soerensen, Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Management of Austrian Airlines, made the following comment on the company’s traffic trend in the first seven months of this year: ‘I am pleased to be able to report that the group-wide improvement measures that we began to intensify back in the first quarter of 2005 have been reflected in significantly improved traffic results since May. In July, we were able to report a rise in passenger volume of more than 16 % and break through the 80 % mark to achieve an all-time high scheduled load factor.

The detailed results of our individual traffic regions – Focus East (Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe) with an increase of 12.2 % in passenger volume on scheduled services compared to the previous year and a remarkable rise of 45.2 % compared to July 2003, the Middle East with a rise on the same month last year of 37.6 % and a very respectable 85.4 % compared to 2003, and the long-range sector with a 10.6 % rise on last year and 49.2 % compared to 2003 – only serve to confirm our consistent strategy of specialisation!’ notas_de_prensa_archivo