Annual Report 2008-2009 - Emirates.com

Capacity, traffic, load factor and utilisation
Capacity increased by 10.5% to 24,397 million tonne-kilometres while traffic increased slower than the capacity increase, by 7.7%
to 15,879 million tonne-kilometres. This resulted in overall load factor decreasing by 1.7 percentage points to 65.1% (2007-08:
66.8%). Aircraft departures increased by 7.6% to 109,477.
The increase in traffic came principally from:
introduction of new passenger services to Guangzhou, Calicut, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
increased frequencies to several existing destinations, mainly Kuala Lumpur, Milan, Lagos, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad,
Moscow and Mumbai.
increased capacity to several existing destinations with bigger aircraft, mainly Zurich, Frankfurt, New York, London, Beirut,
Birmingham, Vienna and Athens.
The passenger seat factor at 75.8% was four percentage points lower than previous year given a 13.4% increase in available seat
kilometres. Passengers carried in 2008-09 reached 22.7 million, representing an increase of 7.1% over last year.
Cargo carried in 2008-09 improved by 9.8% to 1,408,300 tonnes (2007-08: 1,282,134 tonnes).
Aircraft utilisation remained one of the highest in the industry at 13.7 hours per day.
Percentage
70
65
60
55
50
Overall load factor
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Breakeven load factor
10
063
Overall and breakeven load factor Pax and cargo carried
Number million
24
18
12
6
0 0
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Passengers carried (Number million)
Cargo carried (Kg' million)
2000
1750
1500
1250
1000
750
500
250
Kg' million