Austrian Airlines January Passenger Traffic Up

Austrian Airlines has reported that it has transported 725,000 passengers in scheduled and charter services in January 2008, an increase of 1.2% compared to January 2007. The total passenger load factor for scheduled and charter flights was 69.6%, down 3.5% points.

For short and medium haul flights, the Austrian Airlines Group reported a passenger growth of 8.1%, compared with January 2007. The revenue passenger kilometers of these scheduled services increased by 10.8% compared to 2007; the scheduled availability rose by 5.6%. The resulting passenger load factor from this was 61.6%, 2.9% points above January 2007.

Scheduled availability of long haul flights was reduced, as planned, by 32.5% compared to January 2007. The revenue passenger kilometers in the field of long haul flights fell by 36.6%. The passenger load factor resulting from this was 77.9% and thus 5.1 percentage points below the value for the previous year.