Finnair reports big y/y passenger number increase for February 2023

Finnair passenger numbers were up almost 86% year-on-year and nearly 1% month-on-month in February 2022. Capacity increased in February by 24.8% year-on-year but decreased by 7.7% month-on-month, the carrier reported, Finnair’s traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres up 114% year-on-year but down 3.8% with the longer month of January 2023, with the passenger load factor up by 31.4 percentage points year-on-year to 75.2%. Asian traffic RPKs went up by 225% year-on-year and North Atlantic by 30.2%. Finnairs European traffic saw RPKs increase by 63.1%, Middle Eastern by 646.6% and domestic by 50.1%, the carrier added. However  North American capacity, in