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BUSINESS DIGEST: MARCH STATISTICS
Airline Codes
RPK Growth by Carrier
Passenger Load Factor
Growth by Carrier
BI
Royal Brunei Airlines
MH Malaysia Airlines
BR
EVA Air
NH
All Nippon Airways
25%
15
CI
China Airlines
OZ
Asiana Airlines
20%
CX
GA
JL
Cathay Pacific
Garuda
Japan Airlines
PR
QF
SQ
Philippine Airlines
Qantas Airways
Singapore Airlines
15%
10%
10
5
KE
Korean Airlines
TG
Thai Airways Int’l
5%
KA
Dragonair
VN
Vietnam Airlines
0%
0
Percentage
(Mar 07 vs Mar 06)
Percentage Points Change
(Mar 07 vs Mar 06)
-5%
Percentage
(Apr 06-Mar 07 vs Apr 05-Mar 06)
Percentage Points Change
(Apr 06-Mar 07 vs Apr 05-Mar 06)
-10%
BI BR CI CX/KA GA JL KE MH NH OZ PR SQ TG VN
-5
BI BR CI CX/KA GA JL KE MH NH OZ PR SQ TG VN
Vietnam leads RPK charge
Compiled and presented by KRIS LIM of the Research and Statistics
Department of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Secretariat
March inter national
p a s senge r t r a f f ic
for Association of
Asia Pacific Airlines
(A A PA) c a r r i e r s
continued to be strong, with passenger
numbers and revenue passenger kilometres
(RPKs) growing by 6.2% and 7.1%
respectively.
The passenger load factor, at 75.2%,
was 1.2 points higher compared with the
same month last year.
The majority of AAPA carriers saw the
rate of passenger traffic growth strengthen
in March.
Carriers posting double-digit RPK
growth were Vietnam Airlines (22.7%),
Asiana Airlines (22.6%), Korean Air
(17.1%), Thai Airways International
(15.8%) and Philippine Airlines (13.7%).
In addition to buoyant traffic, passenger
load factors for most of the carriers also
improved on slower capacity injection.
Asiana Airlines’ passenger load factor
gained 8.7 percentage points, to 77.5% in
March.
The carrier with the highest load factors
for the month was Singapore Airlines
(82.4%), followed by Philippine Airlines
(81.1%), EVA Air (80.9%), Thai Airways
RPK and ASK (In Percentage)
RPK and ASK (In Billions)
RPK, ASK and PLF Growth Rates
(Apr 06 to Mar 07)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
-2
-4
A
M
RPK, ASK and PLF
(Apr 06 to Mar 07)
RPK
ASK
PLF
J
J
A
2006
S
O
F
2007
RPK
ASK
PLF
0
M
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
-2
PLF (In Percentage Points)
-4
A M J J A S O N D J F M
2006 vs. 2005 2007 vs. 2006
N
D
J
80
60
40
20
PLF (In Percentage)
International (80.9%) and China Airlines
(80.2%).
CARGO
AAPA international cargo traffic
recorded only 0.4% growth in freight
tonne kilometres (FTK) in March. The
FTK growth rate for the same month was
the lowest since May 2006. An increase
of 3.7% in freight capacity resulted in a
2.2 percentage point decline in cargo load
factor to 67.3%.
T he m ajor it y of A A PA ca r r ie r s
recorded declines in FTKs in March.
The region’s large freight operators that
posted declines included China Airlines
(8%), EVA Air (7.2%), Singapore Airlines
(5.7%) and Cathay Pacific Airways (1%).
A number of carriers, on the other hand,
were able to register FTK growth: All
Nippon Airways (16.9%), Thai Airways
International (13.6%), Korean Air (9.5%),
Asiana Airlines (4.6%), Malaysia Airlines
(4.2%) and Japan Airlines (1.1%).
Most carriers experienced declines
in cargo load factors in the month under
review, with only a handful of carriers
registering cargo load factors in excess of
70%: Asiana Airlines (83.4%), Korean Air
(76.4%) and EVA Air (76%).
40 ORIENT AVIATION JULY/AUGUST 2007