Close to 2 million passengers traveled with SAS in August

 

In August 1.9 million passengers traveled with SAS, an increase of approximately 70% compared to the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased by approximately 64% compared with the same period last year. In comparison with last month, the total number of passengers increased with 40% and capacity was increased by 38%, as operations picked-up again following the 15-day pilot strike. The flown load factor for August was 79%, an improvement of 18 percentage points compared to August last year.

“We are pleased to see operations picking up again in August, where we again had almost 2 million customers travelling with us. The total number of passengers was negatively affected by the pilot-strike as it led to lower sales during that period. We continue executing our restructuring plan, SAS FORWARD that will lead to SAS being a financially stable airline, providing the service our customers are expecting”, says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS.

SAS scheduled traffic	Aug22	Change1	Nov21- Aug22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	3,235	56.4%	25,321	109.6%
RPK (Mill.)	2,524	103.7%	17,292	232.9%
Passenger load factor	78.0%	+18.1 pp	68.3%	+25.3 pp
No. of passengers (000)	1,710	64.8%	13,341	170.7%

 

Geographical development, schedule	Aug22           vs.          Aug21		Nov21- Aug22   vs.   Nov20-Aug21
	RPK	ASK	RPK	ASK
Intercontinental	325.6%	118.9%	605.8%	127.2%
Europe/Intrascandinavia	64.0%	45.0%	228.8%	158.7%
Domestic	25.4%	16.4%	79.5%	29.8%

 

SAS charter traffic	Aug22	Change1	Nov21- Aug22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	426	154.1%	2 026	429.5%
RPK (Mill.)	358	194.2%	1 668	498.4%
Load factor	83.9%	+11.4 pp	82.3%	+9.5 pp
No. of passengers (000)	140	185.1%	619	446.0%

 

SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter)	Aug22	Change1	Nov21- Aug22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	3,661	63.8%	27,348	119.4%
RPK (Mill.)	2,882	111.8%	18,959	246.4%
Load factor	78.7%	+17.9 pp	69.3%	+25.4 pp
No. of passengers (000)	1,850	70.2%	13,960	176.8%

1 Change compared to same period last year, p p = percentage points

 

Preliminary yield and PASK	Aug22	Nominal change1	FX adjusted change
Yield, SEK	0.99	3.9%	-0.7%
PASK, SEK	0.77	35.3%	29.4%
			Aug22
Punctuality (arrival 15 min)			75.2%
Regularity			98.6%
Change in total CO2 emissions			114.8 %
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometer,			1.1%
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions			34.9%

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

From fiscal year 2020 SAS reports change in CO2 emissions in total and per Available Seat Kilometers (ASK) to align with our overall goal to reduce our total CO2 emissions by 25% by 2025, compared to 2005.

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