Air New Zealand pax numbers up 3% to 1.1m in Jan-2015, group-wide yields up

Air New Zealand passenger numbers up 3.1% - traffic highlights for Jan-2015:

• Passenger numbers: 1.1 million, +3.1% year-on-year;
• • Short-haul: 918,000, +1.5%;
  • Domestic: 624,000, +0.8%;
  • Tasman/Pacific: 294,000, +3.0%;
  • Long-haul: 153,000, +14.1%;
  • Asia/Japan/UK: 59,000, +36.6%;
  • North America/UK: 94,000, +3.4%;
• Passenger load factor: 87%, -0.5 ppt;
• • Short-haul: 85.1%, +0.2 ppt;
  • Domestic: 80.7%, -1.7 ppts;
  • Tasman/Pacific: 87%, +0.4 ppt;
  • Long-haul: 88.4%, -1.0 ppts;
  • Asia/Japan/UK: 87.3%, -0.3 ppt;
  • North America/UK: 89%, -1.2 ppts. [more - original PR]

Air New Zealand: "Group-wide yields for the financial year to date were up 1.2% on the same period last year. Short Haul yields were up 2.4%, while Long Haul yields were down 0.3%. Removing the impact of foreign exchange, Group-wide yields were up 2.9%," Source: Company statement, 18-Feb-2015.