Azul S.A., (B3: AZUL4, NYSE: AZUL), the largest airline in Brazil by number of destinations and departures, announces today its preliminary traffic results for December 2017.
Passenger traffic (RPKs) increased 15.4% compared to December 2016 on a capacity increase (ASKs) of 13.1%. As a result, load factor was 83.1%, 1.7 percentage points higher than in the same period last year.
In 2017, load factor increased 2.4 percentage points over last year, reaching 82.1%. Domestic load factor was 80.3% and international was 89.5%.
Azul also ranked as most on-time airline in Brazil and most on-time low-cost carrier in the Americas in 2017 according to OAG's Punctuality League, the industry's most comprehensive annual ranking of on-time performance.
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Dec-17 |
Dec-16 |
% ∆ |
2017 |
2016 |
% ∆ |
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Total |
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|
RPK (million) |
2.049 |
1.776 |
15,4% |
20.760 |
18.236 |
13,8% |
|
ASK (million) |
2.467 |
2.181 |
13,1% |
25.300 |
22.869 |
10,6% |
|
Load factor |
83,1% |
81,4% |
+1,7 p.p. |
82,1% |
79,7% |
+2,4 p.p. |
|
Domestic |
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|
RPK (million) |
1.510 |
1.448 |
4,3% |
16.424 |
15.232 |
7,8% |
|
ASK (million) |
1.849 |
1.824 |
1,4% |
20.458 |
19.431 |
5,3% |
|
Load factor |
81,7% |
79,4% |
+2,3 p.p. |
80,3% |
78,4% |
+1,9 p.p. |
|
International |
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|
RPK (million) |
539 |
327 |
64,8% |
4.336 |
3.003 |
44,4% |
|
ASK (million) |
618 |
357 |
72,7% |
4.842 |
3.439 |
40,8% |
|
Load factor |
87,4% |
91,6% |
-4,2 p.p. |
89,5% |
87,3% |
+2,2 p.p. |