3rd Sep 2015 14:26
LONDON (Alliance News) - International Consolidated Airlines Group on Thursday reported a rise in passengers carried in August as its capacity and load factor also increased.
The owner of British Airways, Spanish airlines Iberia and Vueling, and the soon-to-be owner of Irish carrier Aer Lingus, said that it carried 9.1 million passengers in August, a 12.4% increase on the 8.1 million it carried a year earlier.
Group traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, rose 8.6%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres, grew 6.1%. Load factor increased to 86.6% from 84.7%.
Earlier Thursday, low-cost airlines easyJet PLC and Wizz Air Holdings PLC also released their traffic statistics.
easyJet said its load factor in August was 94.4%, a new monthly record for the company increasing from 94.2% a year earlier, while passenger numbers increased by 6.8% to 7.1 million, another record, from 6.6 million.
Wizz Air said that it carried 2.0 million passengers in the month, up 19% on the 1.7 million it carried a year earlier, as its load factor increased by one percentage point to 93.2%.
Meanwhile, Ryanair Holdings PLC, which posted its traffic statistics on Wednesday, said that it carried 10.4 million passengers in August, a 10% rise on the 9.4 million it carried the year before, and its load factor grew by two percentage points to 95%.
Shares in IAG were trading up 4.6% at 567.25 pence Thursday afternoon, while easyJet shares were up 6.1% at 1,774.00p, Ryanair shares were up 3.0% at 12.89p and shares in Wizz Air were up 0.1% at 1,770.00p.
By Karolina Kaminska; [email protected] @KarolinaAllNews
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