Finnair carried 1,126,000 passengers in August, up 2.3% from a year earlier, as its unit revenue improved despite lower capacity. The Helsinki-based carrier’s capacity fell 4.8% and revenue passenger kilometres declined 3.1%, while load factor rose 1.4 percentage points to 80.3%.
Revenue per available seat kilometre increased 12.3%, reflecting stronger load factor and yield. Passenger numbers for the year to date reached 8,516,200, a 7.0% increase from the same period last year. The latest traffic figures indicate that Finnair maintained higher utilisation even as it trimmed overall flying in August.