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Aviation History
1996
1996 - 1922.PDF
[ ALPHABETICAL LISTING Airline Aer Lingus Aeroflot Russian Int. Air. Aeromexico Air Canada Air China Air France Air India Air New Zealand Alaska Air Group Alitalia Group All Nippon Airways America West AMR/American Airlines Ansett Australia Holdings Asiana Austrian Airlines British Airways Canadian Airlines Cathay Pacific China Airlines Continental Airlines Delta Air Lines EIAI EVA Air Finnair Garuda Gulf Air Iberia Japan Air System Japan Airlines KLM Korean Airlines Lufthansa Group Malaysia Airlines Northwest Airlines Philippine Airlines Qantas Sabena SAS Group Saudi Arabian Airlines Singapore Airlines South African Airways Southwest Airlines Swissair TAP Air Portugal Thai Airways Trans World Airlines UAL/United Airlines USAir Group Varig Rank 39 47 50 22 49 9 46 32 37 17 8 36 1 29 38 40 5 28 19 33 13 4 42 45 35 34 43 20 24 6 11 18 3 30 7 48 14 31 15 . 27 16 44 26 12 41 25 21 2 10 23 Japan's two heavyweights are climbing back into profit, but US bilateral battles loom the world's top star performers, but their prof its have come on the back of persistent action on costs. Others such as Malaysia Airlines and Thai Airways are also being forced to grapple with restructuring. There is also a new breed of competition beginning to emerge within the region as coun tries begin to loosen up the regulations to allow competition from second carriers. South Korea's Asiana and Taiwan's EVAhave both propelled themselves into the top 50 rank ing with some impressive growth figures. Asiana grew by nearly one-third in 1995 and promises to keep the expansion rolling with a massive tally of new aircraft orders. EVA, which pushed up sales by another 45 % in 1995, also recorded its first profit since starting operations in 1991. EVA has begun to force the pace in the domestic market with a spree of tie-ups and acquisitions of local carri ers. China Airways has been prompted to follow suit. Despite the occasional hic cup, the region's success con tinues to be underwritten by the world's fastest rates of traffic growth. ICAO estimates that scheduled passenger traffic increased by 11.6% last year, although the Organisation's forecast for 1996 is a dip in growth, back to 9.5 %. The traffic rates will need to be at least this good, to mop up the volumes of new aircraft capacity which arriving in the region. In 1995, seat capacity appears to have kept more or less in line with passenger growth, but there was lit tle margin for error. Like much of the rest of the world, the direc tion in which the Asia-Pacific performance turns in 1996 could be a sign of how far the world airline industry has gone towards taming the excesses of its business cycle. • ».!!N.llW.SJiW.m<M:l Tral Region RPK (bn) North America 897.5 Europe/CIS 550.8 Asia-Pacific 546.8 Latin America 112.3 Middle East 69.6 Africa 53.0 WORLD 2,230.0 rMM!iHi]:!MMi:VJ:lM(iKWiMiH fie change 3.5% 4.8% 11.6% 6.2% 12.3% 12.2% 6.3% Fori 1996 3.8% 5.7% 9.5% 6.5% 7.5% 8.0% 6.0% cast growth 1997 1998 4.3% 6.8% 11.0% 8.0% 8.0% 7.0% 7.0% 4.0% 6.1% 10.5% 7.0% 7.0% 7.0% 6.6% SCHEDULED PASSENGER TRAFFIC Airline Traffic Capacity Load factors RPK mil change change 1995 change 1 Japan Airlines 2 Qantas 3 Singapore Airlines 4 All Nippon Airways 5 Cathay Pacific 6 Korean Air Lines 7 Thai Airways 69,775 51,870 48,400 42,855 35,323 33,782 27,053 8 Malaysia Air Systems23,475 9 Garuda 10 China Airlines 11 Ansett Airlines 12 Philippine Airlines 13 Air China TOTAL 17,584 17,083 14,543 14,374 13,222 409,341 10.9% 7.3% 7.7% 11.2% 8.0% 15.4% 7.2% 15.4% 3.5% 10.8% 12.0% 2.9% 15.1% 9.7% 12.3% 6.9% 6.9% 9.8% 7.5% 14.0% 8.8% 15.7% 4.8% 10.2% 19.2% 3.5% 11.6% 9.8% N0TES:sYield change for year to March 1996 'Yield change for year 68.0% 72.3% 72.0% 63.7% 71.6% 67.1% 67.1% 70.2% 56.9% 69.8% 68.7% 68.3% 65.4% 68.2% to June 1995 -0.9pts 0.2pts 0.5pts 0.8pts 0.3pts 0.8pts -l.Opts •0.2pts -OJpts 0.4pts -4.4pts -0.4pts 2.0pts •O.lpts Yields change - 2.8% -4.3% 2.5% -2.0% - 1.1% -2.4% - 'Estimated yield change for year to 5 FREIGHT TRAFFIC Traffic Yield RTK mil change change 3,781 1,593 3,666 941 2,790 4,305 1,308 1,198 671 2,123 178 373 724 23,650 September 1995 5.3% 0.3% 11.4% 21.8% 17.4% 11.5% 5.8%' 50.3% 0.2% 14.9% na -1.7% 32.3% 12.9% -4.9% 5.3% 6.2% -8.9% NOTES Yieldsl994/5* Yields 1995/6T Estimated yields8 Yields 1994/5' Estimated yields* 38 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 31 July - 6 August 1996
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