The FINANCIAL — More than 280,000 passengers will travel with Alitalia during the Easter festivities (18-22 April). An increase of +12.5% compared to Easter 2013. Specifically, more than 205,000 passengers will travel through the Rome Fiumicino hub, an increase of 10% over last year, accoding to Alitalia.
Moreover, from 18 April to 5 May, which includes the Easter period, the celebrations for the canonisations of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, and the Italian public holiday weekends of 25 April and 1 May, more than one million passengers are expected to travel on Alitalia flights. 74% of passengers will transit Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci airport confirming customer satisfaction with the Re-hubbing project, initiated last winter, which reviewed connection times guaranteeing more convenient flight timings for passengers departing from other Italian and international airports.
Preferred holiday destinations are: Sicily (Catania, Palermo), Sardinia (Cagliari), Apulia (Bari) and Calabria (Lamezia Terme) for domestic flights; Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Athens and Tel Aviv for international routes, and New York, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Tokyo for long-haul flights.
March 2014 saw an increase in the load factor on Alitalia flights compared to the same month in 2013. The load factor on Alitalia flights reached 75.6%, an increase of one percentage point compared to March 2013, which was recorded as 74.6%, according to Alitalia.
1,684,987 passengers were carried by Alitalia in March 2014, a slight decrease compared to the same month of the previous year, due to fact that the Easter holidays, a busy period for passenger air travel, coincided with the end of March. In 2014, Easter falls towards the end of April.
In the first three months of 2014, the Company reported positive traffic figures as a result of the efforts made towards the increase in international and intercontinental sectors and the reorganisation of domestic schedules.
From January to March 2014, Alitalia carried 4,542,314 passengers, a figure substantially in-line with the first three months of 2013, with an increase in load factor of 1.1 percentage points: from 70.7%, for the first three months of last year, to 71.7% for the period January – March 2014.
Alitalia closes the first quarter of 2014 with a load factor of 77.6% on intercontinental routes, an increase of one percentage point compared to the same period in 2013, according to Alitalia.
During the period, the most notable increase in traffic was recorded on international routes (Europe and Middle East), with +9% more passengers compared to the first quarter of 2013 and with a peak of +14% of passengers on international routes from and to Rome Fiumicino.
On domestic routes, which still show a slight decrease in traffic due to the critical Italian macroeconomic scenario, Alitalia has been able to effectively manage the capacity on domestic flights, closing the first quarter with an increase in load factor of 2.1 percentage points (from 63.4% in 2013 to 65.5% in 2014).
Between January and March 2014, Milan Linate became the airport with the fastest growing number of passengers carried on domestic flights (+12.1% vs January-March 2013). An increase of +1% in the number of passengers and an increase of 2.4 percentage points in load factor was recorded on the Rome Fiumicino – Milan Linate route, according to Alitalia.
An excellent performance was recorded on the Sardinian region routes operated by Alitalia (Rome-Cagliari, Milan-Cagliari and Milan-Alghero), with over 250,000 passengers carried between January and March 2014.
Alitalia carried a total of 23.993.486 passengers in 2013, confirming it to be the number one carrier of those operating from Italy.
Alitalia’s operational performance (punctuality and regularity) continues to maintain levels of excellence even in March 2014.
During the month, punctuality A15 – i.e. the number of flights landing within 15 minutes of the scheduled time of arrival, reached 92.3%, an increase of 5 percentage points compared to March 2013 which was recorded as 87.3%.
The regularity index, equal to 99.9% – i.e. the number of flights operated out of the total number of flights scheduled, shows an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to March 2013 which was recorded as 99.7%, according to Alitalia.
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