Number of Passengers Goes down at Austrian Airlines

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: March 13, 2013; 11:56 ♦ (Vindobona)

The passenger number declined by 3.8%. January-February 2013: passenger load factor up 3.2 percentage points.

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

The number of passengers carried by the Austrian Airlines Group in the period January-February 2013 declined by 3.8 percent from the previous year to 1.4 million. This can be primarily attributed to the reduced capacity in the winter season. The fleet was streamlined by four medium-haul aircraft within the context of the fleet harmonization program, and one long-haul aircraft was taken…