Air Canada (AC_A.TO, AC_B.TO) reported a 3.2 percent growth in December 2012 System traffic, on a system-wide capacity increase of 1.8%.
The airline said its December system traffic rose 3.2 percent to 4.39 billion revenue passenger miles or RPMs, from 4.26 billion RPMs last year. System capacity for the month was 5.35 billion available seat miles or ASMs, up 1.8% from the prior year's 5.25 billion ASMs. System Load factor in December totaled 82.1%, 1.1 points higher than 81% reported in the 2011 period.
According to Calin Rovinescu, President and Chief Executive, "Led by increases in traffic in the U.S. transborder market of 6.6 per cent and in the Atlantic market of 5.1 per cent, Air Canada generated greater traffic for the month of December in all markets the airline serves with system wide growth of 3.2 per cent on a capacity increase of 1.8 per cent through higher utilization of our existing fleet."
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