SWISS ends year on a high
SYDNEY – SWISS carried 13.8 million passengers last year, a 2.4 percent increase on the 13.5 million it flew in 2008.
Systemwide production was 1.9 percent below its prior year level in available seat-kilometre (ASK) terms.
Systemwide seat load factor suffered a slight year-on-year decline, from 80.3 percent to 80.1 percent.
The overall capacity reduction in 2009 was limited entirely to the SWISS intercontinental network, which saw a 4.8 percent cut in ASK terms.
With long-haul traffic volume (in revenue passenger-kilometres) posting a six percent year-on-year decline, intercontinental seat load factor fell only slightly from the 84.2 percent of 2008 to 83.2 percent.
For the month of December, SWISS carried 6.7 percent more passengers than in the same month of 2008.
Seat load factor for the month rose 4.7 percentage points, from 76.3 percent to 81 percent
Ian Jarrett
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