Qantas Mainline continues negative growth.

[markis10]

April traffic figures show QF continues to contract, which is opposite to the worldwide trend of growth in the sector, while the group posted growth, it was coming from all airlines other than QF which had a 3.1 percent fall for its domestic operations and 2.1 for Internatonal. Globally there was a 6.1 percent growth according to IATA, thanks to group performance Qantas were closer at 4.6% to that.

 

[eastwest101]

On page 2 of the announcement: http://www.qantas.com.au/infodetail/about/investors/trafficStats/April2012.pdf

there were several things that I noted when they break down the business into divisions and look at Apr 2011 with Apr 2012 numbers:

QFd - less passengers, more avail seat kms and revenue seat factor is down (competition with VA starting to bite? Australian business traffic down?)

QFlink - solid growth everywhere, more capacity but revenue seat factor down a little (capacity growth and possible mining boom effect in QLD and WA?)

JQd - growth everywhere but still low revenue seat factors (Tiger gone AWOL and now returning? market saturation? domestic leisure travel stalled?)

QFi - less pax, less revenue kms, capacity down but revenue seat km's going up (turning the corner?)

JQi - seems to have very strong growth but revenue seat factors down (decreasing out bound and inbound tourism?)

JQ Asia - Very large growth in pax, avail seat kms and revenue seat factors (possible asian growth story?)

Anyone else have wisdom in reading these sort of stats?