Air Berlin Plc (AIBEF.PK), Germany's second-largest airline, said that it increased its capacity utilization rate in February 2013 to 85.29 percent, up 1.8 percentage points over the previous year, despite several days of strike at the airports in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne-Bonn.
In February, the airline company, welcomed about 1.80 million passengers on board, further optimized its flight schedule, and reduced capacity in a targeted manner to 3.41 billion available seat kilometers.
For the months of January and February of the year 2013, airberlin increased capacity utilization by 1.4 percentage points in yearly comparison, and welcomed a total of about 3.56 million passengers on board. The available seat kilometers amounted to 6.86 billion and the revenue passenger kilometers to 5.78 billion.
For 2013, airberlin has changed the way it calculates its seat capacity utilization. The capacity utilization calculation is now determined according to the sector standard, and the revenue passenger kilometers or RPK are compared to the available seat kilometers or ASK.
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