April 2013 traffic

Vueling increases passenger traffic by 13.2% in April

The company reaches a load factor of 74.2% Barcelona, 9th May 2013. - Vueling Airlines has increased passenger traffic by 13.2% year on year. The company has carried 1,358,339 passengers and has reached a load factor of 74.2%.

The main traffic figures are the following:

April

2013

2012

%

Change

Flights

10,468

8,861

18.1%

ASKs (millions)

1,784

1,433

24.6%

RPKs (millions)

1,325

1,101

20.3%

Load factor

(RPKs/ASKs)

74.2%

76.9%

-2.6pp

Pas sen ger s (' 000)

1,358

1,200

ASK (available seat-kilometre): number of seats flown multiplied by the number of kilometres flown RPK (revenue passenger kilometre): number of passengers carried multiplied by the number of kilometres flown New international routes

Vueling continues expanding its route network. Vueling will offer 103 destinations from Barcelona airport during this summer season. Vueling just announced that it will start operating a new route between Barcelona and Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

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