Airline Code [IBE]
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In response to the growing weakness in demand, Iberia carried out additional adjustments in the schedule that led to a capacity reduction of 7.7%. Traffic (RPK) decreased by 10.6% and the load factor stood at 77.1% (2.5 points down on last year) improving its performance with respect to September and October.
Moreover, the effect of a lower occupancy was offset by the increase in yields, partly benefited from the euro-dollar exchange, despite a 13.5% growth in the average stage length.
In the long haul, the load factor reached 83.2% (-3.0 points) with a 5.3% fall in capacity (ASK) and 8.7% drop in traffic, which now represents a 64.5% of total RPK (1.4 points more than in 2007).
In the current difficult economic environment, flights to the South Atlantic performed well; thus, capacity decreased by 2.2% and traffic reduced by 3.3%, standing the load factor at 84.6%.
In the Mid Atlantic, the load factor reached 85.1%, with an 8.6% drop in traffic and a 4.2% decrease in capacity. North Atlantic was the most affected sector with reductions in capacity and traffic of 15.2% and 20.7% respectively, which led to a load factor of 75.9%.
In Europe the load factor improved by 1.0 points to 66.4%, decreasing traffic by 5.5% and capacity by 6.9%. In Africa and the Middle East the load factor went up 3.9 points; RPK rose by 13.3% and ASK grew by 7.5%. The Company continued to reinforce the connections at its main hub, where international medium haul traffic increased by 3.3%, improving the load factor by 2.0 points, to 68.5%.
Following the strategy of revising and optimising the network, Iberia cut capacity by 19.9% in domestic sector; the load factor stood at 68.2%, 7.9 points down on last year. Despite this decrease and the 7.3% growth in the average stage length, the unit revenue was higher compared to the previous year.
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