2.5 million passengers traveled with SAS during July

SAS A320neo

Aviation

In July, SAS transported 2.5 million passengers, a 5% increase from last year, with an 87% load factor and a 99.3% regularity rate.

2.5 million passengers traveled with SAS in July, a 5 percent increase compared with the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased by 4 percent and RPK increased by 6 percent, compared with July 2023. The flown load factor for July was 87 percent.

“We are pleased to see a continued increase in passenger volumes and a regularity rate of 99.3 percent in July. The load factor exceeded 87 percent, which marks one of SAS’ best months historically in terms of load factor. This month, we also announced broad partnership agreements with our future SkyTeam partner, Air France-KLM. This partnership will improve our connectivity and offer additional benefits to our loyal customers from September 1,” says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS.

SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter)	Jul24	Change¹	Nov23- Jul24	Change ¹
ASK (Mill.)	5,066	4.0%	32,874	9.0%
RPK (Mill.)	4,429	6.0%	25,588	11.8%
Load factor	87.4%	1.7 pp	77.8%	1.9 pp
No. of passengers (000)	2,535	5.0%	17,989	6.5%

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

Geographical development, schedule	Jul24 vs. Jul23		Nov23-Jul24 vs. Nov22-Jul23
	RPK	ASK	RPK	ASK
Intercontinental	6.8%	5.0%	13.2%	9.7%
Europe/Intra-Scandinavia	13.3%	9.9%	17.9%	14.8%
Domestic	-8.6%	-11.1%	-3.9%	-6.6%

Preliminary yield and PASK	Jul24	Nominal change¹	FX adjusted change
Yield, SEK	1.00	-3.3%	-1.3%
PASK, SEK	0.87	-0.7%	1.3%

			Jul24
Punctuality (departure 15 min)			75.4%
Regularity			99.3%
Change in total CO₂emissions			9.7%
Change in CO₂emissions per available seat kilometer			-2.2%

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 CO₂emissions 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

From fiscal year 2020 SAS reports change in CO₂ emissions in total and per Available Seat Kilometers (ASK) to align with its overall goal to reduce its total CO₂ emissions by 25% by 2025, compared to 2005.

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