JAL’s summer washout
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Japan Airlines yesterday announced its passenger traffic results for the Japanese summer vacation period of August 8-17 to August, and the figures didn’t make for comforting reading for Japan’s leading airline. JAL’s international traffic during the period slumped 9.6% from the same period in 2007, to 392,622 passengers. International seat supply was down 4.5% down on last year, but even of routes where seat capacity had risen, passenger numbers still declined. Southeast Asia for example saw 1.4% extra capacity on all routes, but recorded passengers numbers 6.7% down on 2007. Chinese routes fared even worse, up 0.1% in seat capacity but with passengers declining 21.7%.
JAL’s domestic routes served slightly better, recording 1,430,735 passengers during vacation period – 0.3% up from last year. Hokkaido and Okinawa routes proved especially strong. Seat supply on domestic routes was 1.3% lower than in 2007.
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