Air New Zealand carried 883,000 passengers in May, up 3.9 percent on the same month last year.Poor weather caused a number of operational challenges during May resulting in 85.5 percent of domestic flights departing within 10 minutes of scheduled departur
Air New Zealand carried 883,000 passengers in May, up 3.9 percent on the same month last year.
Poor weather caused a number of operational challenges during May resulting in 85.5 percent of domestic flights departing within 10 minutes of scheduled departure time, the airline said in an operating update.
It reduced capacity on Tasman and Pacific route by 3 percent in response to a 1.1 percent decrease in demand. As a result the trans-Tasman load factor, a measure of how full flights are, rose 1.5 percentage points to 78.3 percent in May from a year ago.
The group load factor increased by 1.9 percentage points from a year-ago.
Short haul passenger numbers rose 4.2 percent and long haul passenger numbers rose 1.9 percent. The load factor on short haul flights was 80.1 percent, while on long haul it was 71.9 percent.
Group-wide yields for the financial year to date were down 7.9 percent on the same period last year. Removing the impact of foreign exchange, group-wide yields were down 5.9 percent.
