SAS carried nearly 320,000 passengers during April

In April, nearly 320,000 passengers flew with SAS, an increase of about 2% compared with March. While traffic and demand remain far below normal levels, they improved substantially compared with April last year when traffic was essentially at a standstill at the start of the pandemic. SAS is continuing to efficiently adapt its production to prevailing demand, which was reflected in an unchanged load factor compared with March.

“We have noted that willingness to book strongly correlates with vaccination levels and the relaxation of travel restrictions and that customers are continuing to book at short notice. There is undoubtedly a considerable pent-up need to travel, which we hope to meet as we are now approaching the important summer season. In the coming summer, SAS is flying to 100 destinations, which provides us with good preconditions to meet our customers’ travel needs,” says Karl Sandlund, Acting CEO of SAS.

SAS scheduled traffic	Apr21	Change1	Nov20- Apr21	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	983	385.4%	5 269	-68.4%
RPK (Mill.)	299	455.7%	1 543	-85.7%
Passenger load factor	30.4%	+3.9 p u	29.3%	-35.3 p u
No. of passengers (000)	319	240.0%	1 855	-79.9%

Geographical development, schedule	Apr21           vs.          Apr20		Nov20- Apr21    vs.   Nov19-Apr20
	RPK	ASK	RPK	ASK
Intercontinental	2757.2%	4376.9%	-95.4%	-69.9%
Europe/Intrascandinavia	1587.2%	810.9%	-88.3%	-80.9%
Domestic	210.0%	111.5%	-61.6%	-38.5%

SAS charter traffic	Apr21	Change1	Nov20- Apr21	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	3	-90.8%	34	-95.9%
RPK (Mill.)	1	-87.0%	13	-98.2%
Load factor	40.1%	+11.8 p u	38.8%	-48.4 p u
No. of passengers (000)	0.3	-76.8%	4	-98.5%

SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter)	Apr21	Change1	Nov20- Apr21	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	986	323.8%	5 303	-69.7%
RPK (Mill.)	301	381.5%	1 556	-86.5%
Load factor	30.5%	+3.7 p u	29.3%	-36.3 p u
No. of passengers (000)	319	235.9%	1 859	-80.4%

1 Change compared to same period last year. p u = percentage units

Preliminary yield and PASK	Apr21	Nominal change	FX adjusted change
Yield, SEK	1.24	-24.6%	-27.3%
PASK, SEK	0.38	-13.6%	-16.8%
			Apr21
Punctuality (arrival 15 min)			86.6%
Regularity			99.5%
Change in total CO2 emissions, rolling 12 months			-78.4%
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometre			-10.6%
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions			52%

Definitions:

RPK – Revenue passenger kilometres
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), rolling 12 months
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions – Share of SAS passenger related carbon emissions compensated by SAS (EuroBonus members, youth tickets and SAS' staff travel)

From fiscal year 2020 we report 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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