Norwegian had 2.1 million passengers and a load issue of 86.1 p.c in October. Air journey demand was significantly excessive throughout the Nordic autumn holidays when many travellers flew to locations throughout Europe. Regularity was excessive with 99.4 p.c of all scheduled flights going down.
“We’re very glad with October’s visitors figures. Many Nordic prospects took benefit of the autumn holidays, prolonging the summer season season with journeys to our many well-liked metropolis and seashore locations throughout Scandinavia and Europe. I’m significantly completely happy to see that we’ve got managed to cut back our CO2 emissions by 4 p.c in comparison with the identical interval final yr, due to flying extra trendy plane and utilizing the most recent know-how when navigating within the air,” stated Geir Karlsen, CEO of Norwegian.
Norwegian had 2,066,296 passengers in October, up 10 p.c from October 2022. The capability (ASK) was 3,115 million seat kilometres, whereas precise passenger visitors (RPK) was 2,683 million seat kilometres. In October, Norwegian operated a mean of 78 plane with a regularity, share of scheduled flights going down, of 99.4 p.c. Punctuality, the share of flights departing inside quarter-hour of scheduled time, was at 85.0 p.c in October. Nevertheless, a complete of 98 p.c of all departed flights arrived on schedule or inside one hour of scheduled arrival time.
Effectively ready for winter season forward
“We not too long ago printed our monetary outcomes for what has been one of many absolute strongest quarters in our 21-year historical past. We’re nicely ready for the quieter winter buying and selling interval with lowered capability and beneficial hedging place on gas, amongst different actions. Our ticket gross sales for Christmas and New Yr are stable, each domestically and to our European locations, and I wish to thank the rising variety of Nordic travellers who select to fly with us for leisure and enterprise,” stated Karlsen.
Norwegian not too long ago signed an settlement with TUI, considered one of Europe’s main constitution journey operators, to function flights on behalf of TUI from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to locations throughout Europe. And whereas present reserving traits have slowed considerably in step with seasonal fluctuations in demand, the ticket gross sales for the approaching months stay encouraging, each for leisure and enterprise travels.
