Qantas passenger numbers down - Feb 09

[Mal]

Sky News: Qantas passenger numbers down

The kangaroo carrier saw the number of seats filled by paying passengers (or revenue seat factor), drop to 78.4 per cent.

This is down from 80.6 per cent one year ago.

Total passenger numbers were off 8.4 per cent on year to 2.78 million.

Note that Jetstar's passengers rose ... up 2.8% domestic and 24.5% international.

 

[JohnK]

Not surprising considering we are experiencing the beginning of a global financial crisis.

 

[ANstar]

Intersting for FEB (considering it was a day short than last year and they say that is 2.5% of the results or something) on domestic

Virgin Blue had a rise fo about 2% in pax numbers
JQ was down about 1%
QF was down about 7.5%