Press Release
JAL Group Traffic Results for 2006 Summer Vacation Period
Tokyo, Monday August 21, 2006: Japan Airlines Group today announced its results for international and domestic traffic for the Japanese summer vacation period, stretching this year from August 11 to August 20, 2006..
During the 10-day summer vacation period, the JAL Group - based on the combined results of JAL, JALways and Japan Asia Airways -carried a total of 459,059 international passengers, just 1.0% less than in the same vacation period last year.
The results showed that leisure travel to China was definitely back on the road to full recovery with passenger numbers up 38.3% on last year's figures. Last year's figures had been severely affected by anti-Japanese demonstrations held in China in April 2005. Passenger traffic on transpacific routes to the mainland of North America was good, up 14.5% on last year's results; and passenger numbers up a moderate 1.4% on Southeast Asia routes.
Route restructuring over the past year resulted in a 9.2% decrease in the total number of international seats available which to some extent led to the high international seat load factor of 82.8%.
The JAL Group domestic summer vacation domestic passenger total was 1,464,873, 2.4% up on last year's result. Domestic seat supply was 0.2% lower than the same period last year and load factor was 72.3%.
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JAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC (Japan departures) |
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JAL/ JAZ Routes |
Available Seats Compared to 2005 % |
Passenger Total |
Passenger Total Compared to 2005 % |
Seat load factor % |
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Hawaii |
80.2 |
57,571 |
88.6 |
91.7 |
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Transpacific |
110.4 |
55,813 |
114.5 |
89.6 |
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Europe |
80.1 |
45,140 |
88.5 |
88.1 |
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S.E. Asia |
91.2 |
101,427 |
101.4 |
81.6 |
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Oceania |
94.8 |
22,306 |
90.7 |
84.8 |
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Guam/ Saipan |
38.4 |
12,880 |
41.7 |
93.2 |
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Korea |
93.2 |
59,357 |
99.8 |
88.2 |
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China |
100.7 |
61,733 |
138.3 |
68.9 |
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SUBTOTAL |
88.9 |
416,227 |
98.1 |
83.7 |
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JAA Routes |
Available Seats Compared to 2005 % |
Passenger Total |
Passenger Total Compared to 2005 % |
Seat load factor % |
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Taiwan |
111.1 |
42,832 |
109.3 |
75.0 |
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TOTAL |
90.8 |
459,059 |
99.0 |
82.8 |
(JAZ=JALways; JAA=Japan Asia Airways)
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JAL GROUP DOMESTIC TRAFFIC |
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Passenger Total |
Comparison with 2005 % |
Seat load factor % |
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JAL / JEX |
1,301,177 |
102.3 |
72.7 |
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JTA |
97,984 |
105.6 |
73.7 |
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RAC |
7,854 |
106.9 |
76.7 |
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JAC |
53,498 |
100.8 |
71.9 |
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HAC |
4,360 |
89.4 |
64.4 |
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TOTAL |
1,464,873 |
102.4 |
72.3 |
(JEX=JAL Express; JTA=Japan Transocean Air; RAC=Ryukyu Air Commuter; JAC=Japan Air Commuter; HAC=Hokkaido Air System)
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| Summer 2006.pdf |
