SAS Traffic figures - June 2022

July 7, 2022 11:00

Regulatory information

Close to 2 million passengers traveled with SAS in June

During June more than 1.9 million passengers traveled with SAS, an increase of approximately 220% compared to the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased at the same time by approximately 150% compared with the same period last year. In comparison with last month, the total number of passengers increased with 7% and capacity was increased by 6%. The flown load factor for June was 80%, an improvement of 33 percentage points compared to June last year.

“Overall ticket sales have been positive in June, even if the whole aviation ecosystem still faces challenges in the global ramp-up. The notice of strike from the SAS Scandinavia pilots’ unions started impacting our bookings toward the end of the month. Our customers who for a long time have been longing to travel, had their plans disrupted in the middle of summer peak season, when we were looking forward to flying passengers. We continue our SAS FORWARD restructuring plan in which all stakeholders need to participate in order to secure SAS’ financial stability. To successfully continue the transformation of SAS we filed for Chapter 11 in the US on July 5. Update on the progress will be published once available”, says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS.

SAS scheduled traffic	Jun22	Change1	Nov21- Jun22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	3,045	123.2%	19,836	157.2%
RPK (Mill.)	2,419	270.1%	12,897	398.8%
Passenger load factor	79.4%	31.5 pp	65.0%	31.5 pp
No. of passengers (000)	1,812	197.5%	10,424	263.4%

Geographical development, schedule	Jun22 vs. Jun21		Nov21- Jun22 vs. Nov20-Jun21
	RPK	ASK	RPK	ASK
Intercontinental	677.6%	164.9%	1,065.3%	155.0%
Europe/Intrascandinavia	262.5%	149.7%	500.0%	296.7%
Domestic	80.3%	41.7%	122.4%	43.4%

SAS charter traffic	Jun22	Change1	Nov21- Jun22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	386	1,528.3%	1,205	1,962.1%
RPK (Mill.)	337	3,403.6%	1,006	4,269.8%
Load factor	87.2%	46.7 pp	83.5%	44.1 pp
No. of passengers (000)	133	2,879.2%	360	4,293.6%

SAS total traffic (scheduled and charter)	Jun22	Change1	Nov21- Jun22	Change1
ASK (Mill.)	3,431	147.2%	21,040	170.8%
RPK (Mill.)	2,755	315.6%	13,903	433.0%
Load factor	80.3%	32.5 pp	66.1%	32.5 pp
No. of passengers (000)	1,946	217.1%	10,784	274.9%

1 Change compared to same period last year, p p = percentage points

Preliminary yield and PASK	Jun22	Nominal change1	FX adjusted change
Yield, SEK	1.16	8.7%	4.1%
PASK, SEK	0.92	80.2%	42.7%

			Jun22
Punctuality (arrival 15 min)			67.7%
Regularity			96.6%
Change in total CO2 emissions			133.4 %
Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometer,			-0.9%
Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions			39.6%

Definitions:

RPK – Revenue passenger kilometers

ASK – Available seat kilometers
Load factor – RPK/ASK
Yield – Passenger revenues/RPK (scheduled)

PASK – Passenger revenues/ASK (scheduled)

Change in CO2 emissions per available seat kilometers – SAS passenger related carbon emissions divided with total available seat kilometers (incl non-revenue and EuroBonus tickets), rolling 12 months vs rolling 12 months previous year

Carbon offsetting of passenger related emissions – Share of SAS passenger related carbon emissions compensated by SAS (EuroBonus members, youth tickets and SAS' staff travel) during the month

From fiscal year 2020 we report change in CO2 emissions in total and per Available Seat Kilometers (ASK) to align with our overall goal to reduce our total CO2 emissions by 25% by 2025, compared to 2005.

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This is information that SAS AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication by Louise Bergström at 11:00 a.m. CET on 7 July 2022.