SWISS carries more passengers in April 2017

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)1 transported 1,475,466 passengers in April 2017, some 8.5% more than the same month last year. A total of 11,813 flights were operated in the month, a 3.9% reduction from the prior-year period.

April systemwide capacity was raised 5.9% in available seat-kilometre (ASK) terms. Total traffic volume, measured in revenue passenger-kilometres (RPKs), was up 12.7%. Systemwide seat load factor improved accordingly: the 84.9% recorded for the month was a 5.1-percentage-point improvement on April 2016.

Please note: to offer a full overview of the traffic performance of the airlines of the Lufthansa Group, we report all these carriers’ traffic results. This overview (in which the results for SWISS also include those of its sister carrier Edelweiss) is provided in the tables attached.