OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2012. Latvian airline airBaltic carried 217,670 passengers in March 2012, representing 7% decrease comparing with the same month in 2011, when airBaltic transported 233,033 passengers.

During the three months of 2012, airBaltic transported a total of 589,112 passengers, or 2% less than during the same period in 2011, when the total number of passengers was 599,078.

In March, airBaltic operated 3,746 flights, or 14% less than in March 2011 when airBaltic operated 4,334 flights.

The airline’s load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, in March 2012 was at a level of 74% - or 3 percentage points more than in March 2011. The airline achieved a 6 percentage point improvement of load factor to 70% for the first quarter of 2012, compared to the first quarter in 2011.
 
The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 95.3% in March 2012. This means that 95 of every 100 airBaltic flights in March departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes.