In July 1.3 million passengers traveled with SAS, an increase of approximately 23% compared to the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased by approximately 8% compared with the same period last year. In comparison with last month, the total number of passengers decreased with 32% and capacity was decreased by 23%, which was a result from the 15-day pilot strike. The flown load factor for July was 82%, an improvement of 21 percentage points compared to July last year.
“We sincerely apologize to our customers who were affected by the July strike. We are happy operations returned to normality again allowing us to start regaining our customers’ trust. We also continue executing our restructuring plan, SAS FORWARD and filed for chapter 11 in the US on 5th of July to accelerate the transformation process that will lead to a financially stable airline, that will be able to deliver the service our customers are expecting”, says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS.
SAS scheduled traffic | Jul22 | Change1 | Nov21- Jul22 | Change1 |
ASK (Mill.) | 2,251 | -2.2% | 22,086 | 120.6% |
RPK (Mill.) | 1,871 | 36.5% | 14,767 | 273.3% |
Passenger load factor | 83.1% | 23.6 pp | 66.9% | 27.4 pp |
No. of passengers (000) | 1,207 | 18.0% | 11,631 | 198.9% |
Geographical development, schedule | Jul22 vs. Jul21 | Nov21- Jul22 vs. Nov20-Jul21 | ||
| RPK | ASK | RPK | ASK |
Intercontinental | 129.4% | -2.0% | 726.8% | 128.6% |
Europe/Intrascandinavia | 42.1% | 11.4% | 290.1% | 192.7% |
Domestic | -40.1% | -44.2% | 90.2% | 31.7% |
SAS charter traffic | Jul22 | Change1 | Nov21- Jul22 | Change1 |
ASK (Mill.) | 396 | 152.7% | 1,600 | 644.3% |
RPK (Mill.) | 304 | 126.8% | 1,310 | 733.8% |
Load factor | 76.8% | -8.8 pp | 81.9% | 8.8 pp |
No. of passengers (000) | 118 | 111.3% | 478 | 645.9% |
SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter) | Jul22 | Change1 | Nov21-Jul22 | Change1 |
ASK (Mill.) | 2,646 | 7.7% | 23,687 | 131.6% |
RPK (Mill.) | 2,175 | 44.6% | 16,077 | 290.9% |
Load factor | 82.2% | 21.0 pp | 67.9% | 27.7 pp |
No. of passengers (000) | 1,325 | 22.8% | 12,110 | 206.1% |
1 Change compared to the same period last year, p p = percentage points
Preliminary yield and PASK | Jul22 | Nominal change1 | FX adjusted change |
Yield, SEK | 1.05 | 20.9% | 15.5% |
PASK, SEK | 0.87 | 68.7% | 61.2% |
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| Jul22 |
Punctuality (arrival 15 min) |
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| 67.0% |
Regularity |
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| 75.4% |
Change in total CO2 emissions |
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| 118.2 % |
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometer, |
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| 0.8% |
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions |
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| 32.6% |
Definitions:
RPK – Revenue passenger kilometers
ASK – Available seat kilometers
Load factor – RPK/ASK
Yield – Passenger revenues/RPK (scheduled)
PASK – Passenger revenues/ASK (scheduled)
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometers – SAS passenger related carbon emissions divided with total available seat kilometers (incl non-revenue and EuroBonus tickets), rolling 12 months vs rolling 12 months previous year
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions – Share of SAS passenger related carbon emissions compensated by SAS (EuroBonus members, youth tickets and SAS' staff travel) during the month
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