> >Air Canada Reports March Traffic > > > > > > MONTREAL, April 5 /CNW/ - Air Canada flew 1.0 per cent more revenue >passenger miles (RPMs) in March 2002 than in March 2001, according to >preliminary traffic figures. Capacity declined by 0.6 per cent, resulting in a >load factor of 78.1 per cent, compared to 76.9 per cent in March 2001; an >improvement of 1.2 percentage points. > Both domestic and U.S. transborder traffic remained essentially unchanged >with Canada up slightly and U.S. down less than one per cent. Air Canada's >March system load factor is the highest March figure in the company's history. > "While March system available seat mile (ASM) capacity was only down >slightly from last year, aircraft hours flown measured as block hours were >reduced by 8.4 per cent for the month," said Rob Peterson, Executive Vice >President and Chief Financial Officer. "For the quarter, aircraft hours flown >were 12.1 per cent below last year's level. The improvement in block hours in >comparison to ASMs reflects efficiencies achieved through our fleet renewal >program, a part of which involved the removal of older, smaller DC-9 and 737 >aircraft. Another contributing factor is our seat reconfiguration program, in >which we reduced some Business Class capacity to add economy seating while >maintaining the Canadian industry's most comfortable seating pitch standards. >These actions together allow Air Canada to carry more people with less flying >at significant savings in cost. These savings together with the continued >modest year-over-year increase in revenue per available seat mile (RASM) >should result in an improvement over last year in first quarter 2002 operating >results." > > This discussion contains certain forward-looking statements, which >involve a number of risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors >including acts or potential acts of terrorism, government regulations and >government mandated restrictions on operations and pricing, fuel prices, >industry restructuring, labour negotiations, the economic environment in >general including foreign exchange and interest rates, the airline competitive >and pricing environment, industry capacity decisions and new entrants as well >as external events, actual results could differ from expected results and the >differences could be material. > > << > _________________________________________________________________________ > AIR CANADA MAINLINE > _________________________________________________________________________ > MARCH YEAR-TO-DATE > ___________________________________________________ > 2002 2001 Change 2002 2001 Change > _________________________________________________________________________ > Traffic > (RPMs millions) 3,549 3,515 +1.0% 9,853 9,765 +0.9% > _________________________________________________________________________ > Capacity > (ASMs millions) 4,544 4,570 -0.6% 12,970 13,691 -5.3% > _________________________________________________________________________ > Load Factor 78.1% 76.9% +1.2 pts 76.0% 71.3% +4.7 pts > _________________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > RPMs 1,034 1,029 +0.5% 2,952 2,900 +1.8% > _______________________________________________________________ > Canada ASMs 1,361 1,335 +1.9% 3,877 3,972 -2.4% > _______________________________________________________________ > Load Factor 76.0% 77.1% -1.1 pts 76.1% 73.0% +3.1 pts > _______________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > U.S. RPMs 779 786 -0.9% 2,171 2,195 -1.1% > _______________________________________________________________ > Trans- ASMs 1,129 1,089 +3.7% 3,206 3,212 -0.2% > border _______________________________________________________________ > Load Factor 69.0% 72.2% -3.2 pts 67.7% 68.3% -0.6 pts > _______________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > RPMs 847 872 -2.9% 2,243 2,281 -1.7% > _______________________________________________________________ > Atlantic ASMs 943 1,072 -12.0% 2,751 3,155 -12.8% > _______________________________________________________________ > Load Factor 89.8% 81.3% +8.5 pts 81.5% 72.3% +9.2 pts > _________________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > RPMs 590 609 -3.1% 1,607 1,757 -8.5% > _______________________________________________________________ > Pacific ASMs 694 768 -9.6% 1,936 2,477 -21.8% > _______________________________________________________________ > Load Factor 85.0% 79.3% +5.7 pts 83.0% 70.9% +12.1 pts > _________________________________________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Other RPMs 299 219 +36.5% 880 632 +39.2% > _______________________________________________________________ > & ASMs 417 306 +36.3% 1,200 875 +37.1% > _______________________________________________________________ > Charter Load Factor 71.7% 71.6% +0.1 pts 73.3% 72.2% +1.1 pts > _________________________________________________________________________ > > >> The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site: Roj (Roger James) *************************************************** escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: http://www.tntisland.com CBSC Website http://www.tntisland.com/caribbeansocabrassconnection/ The Trinbago Site of the Week: (DMPI) http://www.paninstitute.com/ (Diego Martin Pan Institute) courtesy of Roj Trinbago Website & TnT Web Directory Roj's Trinbago Website: http://www.tntisland.com TnT Web Directory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************