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SAS — Earnings Release 2019
Dec 7, 2018
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CORRECTION: SAS traffic figures - November 2018
CORRECTION: SAS traffic figures - November 2018
CORRECTION OF YIELD AND PASK NOMINAL AMOUNTS TO SEK 1.03 and 0.71, RESPECTIVELY
. SAS scheduled traffic compared to the same month last year:
- Number of passengers increased by 1.8% to 2.3 million.
- Capacity (ASK) and traffic (RPK) increased by 0.1% and 0.8%, respectively.
- Passenger load factor increased by 0.4 p.p. to 69.0%.
. Nominal yield and PASK increased by 5.0% and 5.7%, respectively.
Market and Capacity Development
. Capacity growth is expected to continue during winter 2018/19, and we expect
an overall growth of 4-5% during Q1.
. SAS plans to increase capacity by 2-3% in fiscal year 2019, primarily due to
more seats in the Airbus A320neo.
SAS - Scheduled Traffic Development
. Intercontinental traffic increased 2.6%, while capacity was down 1.8%. The
increase was mainly on Asian routes.
. European/Intrascandinavian traffic declined 1.5% and capacity increased 0.2%.
Traffic increased on Intrascandinavian routes but decreased on European routes.
. Domestic traffic increased 2.6% on the back of a 3.8% increase in capacity,
resulting in a lower passenger load factor. The pattern was similar in Norway
and Sweden.
SAS - In Other News
· SAS redeemed all remaining preference shares at 30 November 2018
· 23 Airbus A320neo in operation as of 6 December 2018
· High-speed WiFi now installed on 42 aircraft