IAG Traffic and Capacity Statistics December 2019

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International Cons Airlines Group

09 January 2020

 

IAG traffic and capacity statistics - December 2019

9 January 2020

IAG traffic in December, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, increased by 6.4 per cent versus the same period last year; IAG capacity measured in available seat kilometres increased by 2.0 per cent versus the same period last year.

Group performance	Month of December				Year to date
	2019	2018	yoy		2019	2018	yoy
Passengers carried ('000s)	8,747	8,294	5.5%		118,253	112,920	4.7%
Domestic	2,122	1,983	7.0%		28,278	26,585	6.4%
Europe	4,317	4,164	3.7%		62,344	60,566	2.9%
North America	993	923	7.6%		12,662	12,138	4.3%
Latin America & Caribbean	568	501	13.4%		6,317	5,346	18.2%
Africa. Middle East & S. Asia	549	538	2.0%		6,162	5,986	2.9%
Asia Pacific	198	185	7.0%		2,490	2,299	8.3%
Revenue passenger km (m)	22,410	21,053	6.4%		285,745	270,656	5.6%
Domestic	1,621	1,479	9.6%		20,859	18,953	10.1%
Europe	4,660	4,539	2.7%		72,148	70,626	2.2%
North America	6,473	6,067	6.7%		83,415	80,542	3.6%
Latin America & Caribbean	4,695	4,126	13.8%		52,411	45,334	15.6%
Africa. Middle East & S. Asia	3,056	3,070	-0.5%		33,033	32,466	1.7%
Asia Pacific	1,905	1,772	7.5%		23,879	22,735	5.0%
Available seat km (m)	26,706	26,193	2.0%		337,754	324,809	4.0%
Domestic	1,945	1,793	8.5%		23,915	22,285	7.3%
Europe	5,769	5,885	-2.0%		86,349	84,883	1.7%
North America	7,688	7,652	0.5%		99,197	97,829	1.4%
Latin America & Caribbean	5,398	4,966	8.7%		60,644	53,542	13.3%
Africa. Middle East & S. Asia	3,682	3,700	-0.5%		39,816	39,424	1.0%
Asia Pacific	2,224	2,197	1.2%		27,833	26,846	3.7%
Passenger load factor (%)	83.9	80.4	+3.5 pts		84.6	83.3	+1.3 pts
Domestic	83.3	82.5	+0.8 pts		87.2	85.0	+2.2 pts
Europe	80.8	77.1	+3.7 pts		83.6	83.2	+0.4 pts
North America	84.2	79.3	+4.9 pts		84.1	82.3	+1.8 pts
Latin America & Caribbean	87.0	83.1	+3.9 pts		86.4	84.7	+1.7 pts
Africa. Middle East & S. Asia	83.0	83.0	+0.0 pts		83.0	82.4	+0.6 pts
Asia Pacific	85.7	80.7	+5.0 pts		85.8	84.7	+1.1 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	458	497	-7.8%		5,577	5,713	-2.4%

* Domestic includes routes within UK. Spain and Italy

* Group figures include Openskies in 2018

 

Strategic developments

In December, British Airways reached final agreement on pay talks with its pilots union BALPA and Iberia announced that it had signed a collective preliminary agreement with its ground handling, maintenance and administrative staff unions. 

On 17 December, British Airways signed a joint business agreement with China Southern Airlines. This will benefit customers by adding more destinations between the UK and China with a greater choice of flights and enhanced frequent flyer benefits.

On 8 November 2019, IAG announced at its Capital Markets Day that it will discontinue publishing monthly traffic and capacity statistics from January 2020. IAG will publish quarterly traffic and capacity statistics at the same time as the quarterly results announcement.

Performance by airline	Month of December				Year to date
	2019	2018	yoy		2019	2018	yoy
Aer Lingus
Passengers carried ('000s)	780	769	1.4%		11,649	11,371	2.4%
Revenue passenger km (m)	1,719	1,615	6.4%		24,753	23,516	5.3%
Available seat km (m)	2,201	2,202	0.0%		30,255	29,030	4.2%
Passenger load factor (%)	78.1	73.3	+4.8 pts		81.8	81.0	+0.8 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	16	20	-20.0%		173	174	-0.6%
British Airways
Passengers carried ('000s)	3,730	3,550	5.1%		47,710	46,952	1.6%
Revenue passenger km (m)	12,449	11,934	4.3%		155,580	152,177	2.2%
Available seat km (m)	14,874	14,848	0.2%		186,170	184,547	0.9%
Passenger load factor (%)	83.7	80.4	+3.3 pts		83.6	82.5	+1.1 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	335	364	-8.0%		4,211	4,395	-4.2%
Iberia
Passengers carried ('000s)	1,776	1,652	7.5%		22,449	20,937	7.2%
Revenue passenger km (m)	5,193	4,802	8.1%		63,991	58,274	9.8%
Available seat km (m)	6,034	5,760	4.8%		73,354	68,176	7.6%
Passenger load factor (%)	86.1	83.4	+2.7 pts		87.2	85.5	+1.7 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	107	111	-3.6%		1,181	1,135	4.1%
LEVEL
Passengers carried ('000s)	186	118	57.6%		1,877	867	116.5%
Revenue passenger km (m)	852	568	50.0%		8,011	4,337	84.7%
Available seat km (m)	979	723	35.4%		9,543	5,169	84.6%
Passenger load factor (%)	87.0	78.6	+8.4 pts		83.9	83.9	+0.0 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	0	2	-100.0%		12	7	71.4%
Vueling
Passengers carried ('000s)	2,275	2,205	3.2%		34,568	32,725	5.6%
Revenue passenger km (m)	2,197	2,134	3.0%		33,410	31,973	4.5%
Available seat km (m)	2,618	2,660	-1.6%		38,432	37,431	2.7%
Passenger load factor (%)	83.9	80.2	+3.7 pts		86.9	85.4	+1.5 pts
Cargo tonne km (m)	n/a	n/a	n/a		n/a	n/a	n/a

* British Airways includes BA CityFlyer; Iberia includes Iberia Express; LEVEL includes Spain, France and Austria

* British Airways figures exclude Openskies in 2018

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