Austrian Airlines: Number of Passengers Down in September

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: October 10, 2012; 15:11 ♦ (Vindobona)

January-September 2012: 2.1 percent more passengers carried. September 2012: Fewer passengers due to reduction of capacity.

Austrian Airlines: Number of Passengers Down in September / 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 first three quarters of 2012 by 2.1 percent from the prior-year level to a total of 8.8 million passengers. The passenger load factor was up by 3.5 percentage points, rising  to 77.7 percent. Capacity as measured by available seat kilometers (ASK) was reduced  by 2.5 percent, whereas the comparable figure…