Moscow, 20 November 2018 – Aeroflot PJSC (Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) today announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for October and 10M 2018[1].
In 10M 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 47.0 million passengers, up 10.3% year-on-year. Aeroflot airline carried 29.9 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 8.0%. Group and Company RPKs increased by 9.1% and 6.2% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 8.9% year-on-year for the Group and by 7.6% year-on-year for the Company. The passenger load factor increased by 0.2 p.p. year-on-year to 83.7% for Aeroflot Group and decreased by 1.0 p.p. to 81.6% for Aeroflot airline.
In October 2018, Aeroflot Group carried 4.8 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%. Aeroflot airline carried 3.1 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 8.0%.
Group and Company RPKs were up 9.2% and 5.2% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs rose by 8.3% for Aeroflot Group and by 5.6% for Aeroflot airline.
On domestic routes, Group passengers carried and RPKs grew by 14.1% and 14.8% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs grew by 11.3% year-on-year. Company passengers carried and RPKs increased by 11.6% and 9.1% year-on-year, respectively. ASKs grew by 7.5%.
The number of passengers carried on the Group’s international routes increased by 8.3% year-on-year. RPKs grew by 5.5%, while capacity grew by 6.4%. The number of passengers carried by Aeroflot airline on international routes increased by 4.6%. RPKs grew by 3.1%, ASKs by 4.6%.
Aeroflot Group’s passenger load factor was 82.8%, representing a 0.6 percentage point increase versus the same period a year earlier. The passenger load factor at Aeroflot – Russian Airlines immaterially decreased by 0.3 percentage points year-on-year to 81.1%.
In October 2018, Aeroflot Group added four aircraft: three Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 777-300. One Airbus A320 was phased-out. As of 31 October 2018, the Group fleet had 364 aircraft.
Aeroflot airline added two Boeing 737-800 aircraft as well as phased-out one Airbus A320 aircraft. As of 31 October 2018, the Company fleet had 251 aircraft.
| Net changes in the fleet | Number of aircraft[2] as of 31.10.2018 | ||
| October 2018 | 10M 2018 | ||
| Aeroflot Group | +3 | +38 | 364 |
| Aeroflot airline | +1 | +27 | 251 |
| October2018 | October2017 | Change | 10M 2018 | 10M 2017 | Change | |
| Passengers carried, thousand PAX | 4,791.7 | 4,301.4 | 11.4% | 47,040.6 | 42,641.1 | 10.3% |
| - international | 2,162.5 | 1,997.2 | 8.3% | 20,921.5 | 19,217.8 | 8.9% |
| - domestic | 2,629.2 | 2,304.2 | 14.1% | 26,119.1 | 23,423.2 | 11.5% |
| Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn | 12,303.6 | 11,270.8 | 9.2% | 120,731.7 | 110,652.4 | 9.1% |
| - international | 7,174.0 | 6,802.8 | 5.5% | 69,899.3 | 65,210.3 | 7.2% |
| - domestic | 5,129.6 | 4,468.2 | 14.8% | 50,832.4 | 45,442.2 | 11.9% |
| Available Seat Kilometres, mn | 14,854.7 | 13,712.4 | 8.3% | 144,247.2 | 132,466.0 | 8.9% |
| - international | 8,863.2 | 8,329.9 | 6.4% | 85,043.1 | 78,149.7 | 8.8% |
| - domestic | 5,991.4 | 5,382.5 | 11.3% | 59,204.2 | 54,316.4 | 9.0% |
| Passenger load factor, % | 82.8% | 82.2% | 0.6 p.p. | 83.7% | 83.5% | 0.2 p.p. |
| - international | 80.9% | 81.7% | (0.7 p.p.) | 82.2% | 83.4% | (1.2 p.p.) |
| - domestic | 85.6% | 83.0% | 2.6 p.p. | 85.9% | 83.7% | 2.2 p.p. |
| Cargo and mail carried, tonnes | 29,342.1 | 27,214.0 | 7.8% | 247,958.6 | 218,716.7 | 13.4% |
| - international | 16,911.8 | 15,200.8 | 11.3% | 138,238.4 | 121,915.8 | 13.4% |
| - domestic | 12,430.3 | 12,013.2 | 3.5% | 109,720.2 | 96,800.8 | 13.3% |
| Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn | 126.4 | 120.0 | 5.3% | 1,063.7 | 992.3 | 7.2% |
| - international | 78.6 | 73.0 | 7.6% | 649.1 | 603.0 | 7.6% |
| - domestic | 47.9 | 46.9 | 2.0% | 414.7 | 389.3 | 6.5% |
| Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,233.8 | 1,134.4 | 8.8% | 11,929.6 | 10,951.0 | 8.9% |
| - international | 724.2 | 685.3 | 5.7% | 6,940.0 | 6,471.9 | 7.2% |
| - domestic | 509.5 | 449.1 | 13.5% | 4,989.6 | 4,479.1 | 11.4% |
| Available Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,753.2 | 1,627.7 | 7.7% | 17,036.8 | 15,903.9 | 7.1% |
| - international | 1,047.6 | 982.4 | 6.6% | 10,033.3 | 9,355.6 | 7.2% |
| - domestic | 705.6 | 645.2 | 9.4% | 7,003.5 | 6,548.3 | 7.0% |
| Revenue load factor, % | 70.4% | 69.7% | 0.7 p.p. | 70.0% | 68.9% | 1.2 p.p. |
| - international | 69.1% | 69.8% | (0.6 p.p.) | 69.2% | 69.2% | - |
| - domestic | 72.2% | 69.6% | 2.6 p.p. | 71.2% | 68.4% | 2.8 p.p. |
| Revenue flights | 36,092 | 32,292 | 11.8% | 341,822 | 309,071 | 10.6% |
| - international | 15,420 | 13,778 | 11.9% | 143,778 | 128,510 | 11.9% |
| - domestic | 20,672 | 18,514 | 11.7% | 198,044 | 180,561 | 9.7% |
| Flight hours | 98,393 | 88,980 | 10.6% | 932,170 | 845,285 | 10.3% |
| October2018 | October2017 | Change | 10M 2018 | 10M 2017 | Change | |
| Passengers carried, thousand PAX | 3,144.6 | 2,912.5 | 8.0% | 29,914.8 | 27,701.9 | 8.0% |
| - international | 1,574.0 | 1,505.2 | 4.6% | 15,261.7 | 14,462.2 | 5.5% |
| - domestic | 1,570.7 | 1,407.3 | 11.6% | 14,653.1 | 13,239.7 | 10.7% |
| Revenue Passenger Kilometres, mn | 8,590.1 | 8,166.6 | 5.2% | 82,115.1 | 77,339.3 | 6.2% |
| - international | 5,468.4 | 5,305.9 | 3.1% | 53,426.7 | 50,926.1 | 4.9% |
| - domestic | 3,121.7 | 2,860.7 | 9.1% | 28,688.5 | 26,413.2 | 8.6% |
| Available Seat Kilometres, mn | 10,589.4 | 10,029.2 | 5.6% | 100,677.2 | 93,585.3 | 7.6% |
| - international | 6,911.9 | 6,606.9 | 4.6% | 66,966.0 | 62,394.9 | 7.3% |
| - domestic | 3,677.5 | 3,422.3 | 7.5% | 33,711.3 | 31,190.4 | 8.1% |
| Passenger load factor, % | 81.1% | 81.4% | (0.3 p.p.) | 81.6% | 82.6% | (1.0 p.p.) |
| - international | 79.1% | 80.3% | (1.2 p.p.) | 79.8% | 81.6% | (1.8 p.p.) |
| - domestic | 84.9% | 83.6% | 1.3 p.p. | 85.1% | 84.7% | 0.4 p.p. |
| Cargo and mail carried, tonnes | 22,321.9 | 22,019.0 | 1.4% | 182,417.8 | 183,860.7 | (0.8%) |
| - international | 15,005.9 | 14,415.9 | 4.1% | 123,046.2 | 119,217.8 | 3.2% |
| - domestic | 7,316.0 | 7,603.1 | (3.8%) | 59,371.6 | 64,642.9 | (8.2%) |
| Revenue Cargo Tonne Kilometres, mn | 104.7 | 102.8 | 1.8% | 859.5 | 854.3 | 0.6% |
| - international | 73.3 | 70.7 | 3.7% | 608.5 | 591.8 | 2.8% |
| - domestic | 31.4 | 32.1 | (2.2%) | 251.0 | 262.5 | (4.4%) |
| Revenue Tonne Kilometres, mn | 877.8 | 837.8 | 4.8% | 8,249.8 | 7,814.8 | 5.6% |
| - international | 565.4 | 548.2 | 3.1% | 5,416.9 | 5,175.1 | 4.7% |
| - domestic | 312.4 | 289.6 | 7.9% | 2,832.9 | 2,639.7 | 7,3% |
| Available Tonne Kilometres, mn | 1,278.0 | 1,211.3 | 5.5% | 12,103.0 | 11,427.0 | 5.9% |
| - international | 840.9 | 798.7 | 5.3% | 8,094.3 | 7,651.2 | 5.8% |
| - domestic | 437.2 | 412.6 | 6.0% | 4,008.7 | 3,775.8 | 6.2% |
| Revenue load factor, % | 68.7% | 69.2% | (0.5 p.p.) | 68.2% | 68.4% | (0.2 p.p.) |
| - international | 67.2% | 68.6% | (1.4 p.p.) | 66.9% | 67.6% | (0.7 p.p.) |
| - domestic | 71.5% | 70.2% | 1.3 p.p. | 70.7% | 69.9% | 0.8 p.p. |
| Revenue flights | 24,244 | 21,844 | 11.0% | 224,895 | 202,533 | 11.0% |
| - international | 11,728 | 10,709 | 9.5% | 110,691 | 100,453 | 10.2% |
| - domestic | 12,516 | 11,135 | 12.4% | 114,204 | 102,080 | 11.9% |
| Flight hours | 68,484 | 62,966 | 8.8% | 640,487 | 583,631 | 9.7% |
[1] Management accounts.
[2] Excluding aircraft leased or subleased out.
