Press Release
JAL Group Traffic Results for 2009 Summer Vacation Period
Tokyo, August 18, 2009: Japan Airlines Group announced its international and domestic passenger traffic results for the Japanese summer vacation period that stretched from August 7 to August 16 this year.
The international passenger traffic on JAL Group flights during the 10-day period is 347,209, down by 4.5% on the same period last year. However, the number of passengers that departed Japan for China, Guam and Europe in particular, showed an improvement of 31.1%, 3.1% and 1.4% respectively when compared to the same period last year.
With the exception of routes to Hawaii and Guam, on which capacities were down by 2% and 1% respectively, capacity was down by more than 10% on all other international routes due to either reductions in scheduled flight frequency or the switch to smaller-sized aircraft from the beginning of FY2009. This contributed to a drop in the number of available seats on the Group’s international network by 16.2% compared to last year. JAL also operated only half the number of extra flights it operated during the summer vacation period last year; 26 extra international flights were operated this year to such destinations as Alaska, Honolulu, Latvia and Palau.
The load factors on Hawaii, transpacific, Europe and Taiwan routes exceeded 90%, and the load factor on all the other international routes from Japan were above 70%. This led to a high overall load factor of 84.5% on international routes and which represents a rise of 10.4 percentage points versus previous year.
For domestic traffic, the JAL Group carried 1,312,717 domestic passengers during this period which is a 7.6% decline compared to last year’s result. Seat supply on domestic routes is 3.4% lower than the same period last year and the load factor is 70.5%. 73 additional flights on domestic routes in Japan were operated during this summer vacation period, to such key vacation destinations as Okinawa, Sapporo and Kagoshima.
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JAL/JAZ/JEX Routes |
Available Seat % Change on 2008 (%) |
Passenger Total |
% Pax Change on 2008 (%) |
Seat load factor (%) |
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-2.0 |
45,909 |
-3.8 |
90.3 |
|
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Transpacific |
-14.3 |
31,855 |
-11.7 |
93.7 |
|
Europe |
-10.1 |
39,928 |
+1.4 |
94.3 |
|
S.E. Asia |
-13.6 |
81,981 |
-6.4 |
77.8 |
|
Oceania |
-44.4 |
7,407 |
-46.3 |
72.0 |
|
Guam |
-1.0 |
15,732 |
+3.1 |
86.6 |
|
South Korea |
-29.5 |
32,084 |
-27.3 |
89.1 |
|
China |
-17.5 |
60,584 |
+31.1 |
76.7 |
|
Taiwan |
-24.1 |
31,729 |
-4.6 |
90.2 |
|
TOTAL |
-16.2 |
347,209 |
-4.5 |
84.5 |
(JAZ=JALways; JEX=JAL Express)
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JAL Group Domestic Results Aug 7 - Aug 16, 2009 |
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Available Seat %Change on 2008 |
Passenger Total |
% Pax Change on 2008 |
Seat load factor % |
|
JAL / JEX |
-3.0 |
1,167,465 |
-7.0 |
71.0 |
|
JTA |
-12.3 |
79,350 |
-16.2 |
70.7 |
|
RAC |
-3.4 |
8,816 |
-6.7 |
68.8 |
|
JAC |
+2.9 |
52,490 |
-5.5 |
61.8 |
|
HAC |
-4.4 |
4,596 |
-13.3 |
59.1 |
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TOTAL |
-3.4 |
1,312,717 |
-7.6 |
70.5 |
(JEX=JAL Express; JTA=Japan Transocean Air; RAC=Ryukyu Air Commuter; JAC=Japan Air Commuter; HAC=Hokkaido Air System)
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