If you are interested in the numbers, the Otago Daily Times has some on AIZ: RASK fell 6% but that is to be expected as they expanded Australian routes.
Monday, 17 October 2016 Air NZ numbers continue to rise
By Dene Mackenzie
Air New Zealand passenger numbers continued to rise in September and the airline carried 1.5 million passengers in the month, a 4.7% rise on the corresponding month last year.
In the financial year to date, Air NZ carried slightly more than four million passengers, a 5.2% increase on the previous corresponding period.
However, it was not all good news for the airline.
For the financial year to date, short-haul passenger revenue divided by total capacity — revenue per available seat kilometre (RASK) — fell nearly 6% while long-haul RASK fell 12.2%.
Removing the impact of foreign exchange, group-wide RASK fell 9.6% and group-wide yields for the financial year to date decreased 8.4% on the same period last year.
Revenue passenger kilometres in September were up 6.8% on a capacity increase of 8.2%, figures released by the airline this week showed.
Short-haul passenger numbers increased 4.2%.
In the domestic market, demand increased 7.7% with capacity increasing 7.9% due to increased services on the Auckland-Queenstown route.
Tasman-Pacific demand increased 1.2% while capacity increased 3.9%.
Long-haul passenger numbers increased 8.4% in September compared with September last year.
Demand was up 9.7% and capacity rose 10.8%. Load factor on long-haul routes was 86.5%, down 0.9%.
On Americas-United Kingdom routes, demand increased 13.5% with capacity increasing 13% due to the Auckland-Houston and Auckland-Buenos Aires routes.
That was partly offset by reduced frequency on the Auckland-Los Angeles route.
The load factor fell 0.5% to 87.9%.
On Asia-Japan-Singapore routes, demand increased 3.4% and capacity increased by 7.3%, reflecting the seasonal Auckland-Ho Chi Minh City route.
Loads fell 3.1% to 84.2%.
The airline confirmed it would operate a second season of non-stop services between Auckland and Vietnam.
From June 24 to October 25 next year, passengers would travel on a Dreamliner aircraft.
For the 2017 season, Air NZ would operate two non-stop services a week from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City using the 302-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. https://www.odt.co.nz/business/air-nz-numbers-continue-rise
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