Finnair passengers slightly down in March 2024

Despite Finnair’s overall capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) increasing 3.9% in March year-on-year, total passengers carried stood at 918,900; 3.6% less than in March 2023. Traffic for the month increased by 0.3% and passenger load factor declined by 2.7 percentage points to 75.0%. Available seat kilometres increased most substantially in the Asian market at 13.5% year-on-year, including additional flights to Japan and South Korea. ASKs within Europe were also marginally up at 2.1%. However, North Atlantic capacity decreased by 11.6% and Middle Eastern capacity also saw a decline of 7.3% (with the latter negatively impacted by cancelled flights to