OREANDA-NEWS. April 12, 2011. Latvian national airline airBaltic carried 233,033 passengers in March 2011 (from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn), representing 2% decrease comparing with the same month in 2010, when airBaltic transported 238,453 passengers.

During the three months of 2011, airBaltic transported a total of 599,078 passengers, or 4% less than during the same period in 2010, when the total number of passengers was 624,191.

In March, airBaltic operated 4,334 flights, or 4% more than in March 2010 when airBaltic operated 4,155 flights.

The airline’s load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, in March 2011 was at a level of 71% - or 5% points more than in March 2010.

The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 90.2% in March 2011. This means that more than 90 of every 100 airBaltic flights in March departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes.