Air Berlin reports improved revenue in Mar-2009

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In Mar-2009, Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline company, was able to increase its revenue per available seat kilometer to 5.45 Eurocents, ie an increase of 4.2% (03/2008: 5.23 Eurocents). Although capacity was only reduced by 0.8% in comparison to March of the previous year, the number of passengers transported decreased by 5.6% to 2,053,960 passengers (03/2008: 2,175,427).

 

Fleet capacity utilization decreased by 3.7 percentage points to 74.1% (03/2008: 77.8%). A reason for the decline in the number of passengers is that the Easter season, which is traditionally a strong season for tourist travel, did not fall in the month of March this year.

For the period from January to Mar-2009, Air Berlin welcomed a total of 5,469,980 passengers on board, i.e. 6.2% less than in the corresponding period of the previous year (01-03/2008: 5,831,160 passengers). This decline is offset by an accumulated capacity reduction of 3.9%. For the first three months of the year, fleet capacity utilization decreased by 1.7 percentage points, namely from 73.2 to 71.5%.

 

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 08-Apr-09



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