One and a half million passengers travelled with SAS during December

In December almost one and a half million passengers flew with SAS, an increase of 50% compared to the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased by 13% versus the same period last year. In comparison with last month, the total number of passengers decreased with 12% and capacity was decreased by 7%. The flown load factor for December was 72%, an improvement of 15 percentage points compared to December last year.

“Continuing the positive trend observed during autumn, December traffic came in 1.5 million passengers, an almost 50% increase compared to December 2021. We are concentrating on ramping up ahead of the expected busy summer season. During the month we released our extended summer program, with 20 new routes and more than 5000 weekly flights to more than 100 destinations," says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS.

SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter)	Dec22	Change1	Nov22- Dec22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	2,714	12.7%	5,647	16.2%
RPK (Mill.)	1,945	41.6%	3,959	38.1%
Load factor	71.7%	14.6 pp	70.1%	11.1 pp
No. of passengers (000)	1,470	47.5%	3,137	35.0%

1 Change compared to same period last year, pp = percentage points

 

Geographical development, schedule	Dec22           vs.          Dec21		Nov22- Dec22   vs.   Nov21-Dec21
	RPK	ASK	RPK	ASK
Intercontinental	54.2%	33.6%	78.9%	42.4%
Europe/Intrascandinavia	35.4%	2.5%	19.6%	3.5%
Domestic	26.5%	-1.3%	20.1%	4.5%

 

 

Preliminary yield and PASK	Dec22	Nominal change1	FX adjusted change
Yield, SEK	1.03	14.8%	9.1%
PASK, SEK	0.73	44.2%	37.1%
			Dec22
Punctuality (arrival 15 min)			56.2%
Regularity			97.9%
Change in total CO2 emissions			77.7%
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometer,			2.7%
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions			41.5%

 

Definitions:

RPK – Revenue passenger kilometers

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 tickets), rolling 12 months vs rolling 12 months previous year

Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions – Share of SAS passenger related carbon emissions compensated by SAS (EuroBonus members, youth tickets and SAS' staff travel) during the month

 

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.