Austrian Airlines Increases Number of Passengers Carried

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: December 11, 2012; 15:29 ♦ (Vindobona)

Traffic Results from January to November 2012: 1.7 percent more passengers carried. November 2012: Rising passenger volume despite fleet reduced by four aircraft. Positive trend in capacity utilization continues.

Austrian Airlines Increases Number of Passengers Carried / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The Austrian Airlines Group increased the number of passengers carried in the period January to November 2012 by 1.7 percent from the prior-year level to a total of 10.7 million passengers. The passenger load factor was up by 3.7 percentage points, rising to 77.6 percent in the first eleven months of the year. Capacity as measured by available seat kilometers (ASK) was reduced by 3.8…