May 09, 2005 JAL Group Golden Week Vacation Period Results 2005

TOKYO May 09,2005: Today JAL Group announced the results for the traditional Japanese “GOLDEN WEEK'' vacation period, stretching this year from April 28 to May 8, 2005. The number of passengers travelling on JAL Group airlines international routes increased by 2.4% on the same period last year.

International passenger reservations during the 11-day period, made up by a combination of public holidays and weekends, totalled 203,375. JAL and its subsidiaries - Japan Asia Airways (JAA) and JALways (JAZ) - benefited from the length of this year's Golden Week, and as a result experienced increases in passenger traffic on most notably Korea, Transpacific and Europe routes up respectively by 12.1%, 8.3% and 3.9% on last year. Significant decreases in passenger traffic occurred on both China, and Oceania routes: down 8.3% and 12.2% respectively.

The overall moderate growth in international traffic was somewhat offset by a decrease in traffic on Japan domestic routes which was down 1.5% on last year's results. JAL Group domestic Golden Week passenger reservations totalled 1,365,496..

The seat load factor for international routes was 61.2%, and 64.4% on domestic routes.

JAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC (Japan departures)
JAL/ JAZ Routes	Passenger Total	% Change on 2004	Seat load factor %
Hawaii	31,453	102.6	80.3
Transpacific	22,996	108.3	77.1
Europe	22,613	103.9	68.3
S.E. Asia	42,557	100.2	54.6
Oceania	9,709	87.8	62.4
Guam/ Saipan	15,546	97.9	68.8
Korea	22,452	112.1	61.5
China	19,427	91.7	39.0
SUBTOTAL	186,753	101.3	61.3
JAA Routes	Passenger Total	% Change on 2004	Seat load factor %
Taiwan	16,622	116.2	60.0
TOTAL	203,375	+2.4	61.2

(JAZ=JALways; JAA=Japan Asia Airways)

JAL GROUP DOMESTIC TRAFFIC
	Passenger Total	% Change on 2004	Seat load factor %
JAL / JEX	1,223,361	98.4	64.0
JTA	86,722	101.9	71.1
RAC	7,217	94.7	67.9
JAC	44,257	97.9	64.5
HAC	3,939	91.1	48.8
TOTAL	1,365,496	-1.5	64.4

(JEX=JAL Express; JTA=Japan Transocean Air; RAC=Ryukyu Air Commuter; JAC=Japan Air Commuter; HAC=Hokkaido Air System)

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Golden Week 2005 Results.pdf