Press Release
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.
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JAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC (Japan departures) |
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JAL/ JAZ Routes |
Passenger Total |
% Change on 2004 |
Seat load factor % |
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Hawaii |
31,453 |
102.6 |
80.3 |
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Transpacific |
22,996 |
108.3 |
77.1 |
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Europe |
22,613 |
103.9 |
68.3 |
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S.E. Asia |
42,557 |
100.2 |
54.6 |
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Oceania |
9,709 |
87.8 |
62.4 |
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Guam/ Saipan |
15,546 |
97.9 |
68.8 |
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Korea |
22,452 |
112.1 |
61.5 |
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China |
19,427 |
91.7 |
39.0 |
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SUBTOTAL |
186,753 |
101.3 |
61.3 |
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JAA Routes |
Passenger Total |
% Change on 2004 |
Seat load factor % |
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Taiwan |
16,622 |
116.2 |
60.0 |
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TOTAL |
203,375 |
+2.4 |
61.2 |
(JAZ=JALways; JAA=Japan Asia Airways)
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JAL GROUP DOMESTIC TRAFFIC |
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Passenger Total |
% Change on 2004 |
Seat load factor % |
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JAL / JEX |
1,223,361 |
98.4 |
64.0 |
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JTA |
86,722 |
101.9 |
71.1 |
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RAC |
7,217 |
94.7 |
67.9 |
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JAC |
44,257 |
97.9 |
64.5 |
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HAC |
3,939 |
91.1 |
48.8 |
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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 |
