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Is KLIA on track to surpass 50 million? Annualized, the current figure only stands at 48.8 million. Perhaps the second half of the year is typically a busier period?

 

The latest 12 month figure for KUL is 49.5 million passengers so for sure it will break the 50 million/year mark in the coming months.

 

Geoff

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Preliminary Operating Statistics For the 2nd Quarter of the Financial Year Ended 2014
AirAsia Berhad (“AirAsia” or “the company”) is pleased to announce the operating statistics for the 2nd Quarter 2014 (“2Q14”).
In 2Q14, the Group* recorded a solid load factor of 79%. Number of passengers carried increased by 13% year-on-year (y-o-y”) to 11.3 million, together with a 15% increase in capacity. During the quarter under review, the Group* took in an additional 9 aircraft (45 additional aircraft y-o-y), bringing the total fleet size of the Group* to 166 at the end of 1Q14 (167 including AirAsia India).
Malaysia AirAsia (“MAA”) maintained its strong load factor of 80% in 2Q14, no change as compared to the same period last year. The number of passengers carried increased by 1% y-o-y to 5.6 million, in line with its 1% increase in capacity y-o-y. In 1H14, MAA underwent a route rationalisation programme whereby each route is reassessed to ensure we optimise profitability and utilisation focusing on routes with high passenger demand. This is also on the back of a more rational market as competitors too are scaling down on capacity. MAA added 8 aircraft into its fleet this quarter whilst y-o-y it added a total of 14 aircraft. This brings MAA’s total fleet to 80 at the end of 2Q14. MAA introduced four new routes this quarter: Kuala Lumpur – Kalibo; Johor Bahru – Tawau; Kota Bharu – Singapore; and Kuala Terengganu – Singapore. Frequencies were also increased on five routes: Kuala Lumpur – Kota Bharu, Kochi, Hat Yai, Siem Reap, and Lombok. With the route rationalisation programme, MAA had terminated its Miri – Kuala Terengganu route and had scaled down significant number of frequencies on three existing routes: Kuala Lumpur – Sandakan and Singapore; and Johor Bahru – Miri.
Thai AirAsia (“TAA”) recorded a load factor of 78% this quarter, down 4 ppts mainly due to the political instability that led to a slowdown in inbound tourists. Passengers carried increased 16% y-o- y to 2.8 million with 23% increase in capacity y-o-y. There was no aircraft addition into TAA’s fleet this quarter but y-o-y it took in an additional 8 aircraft in total. At the end of the reporting period, TAA has a total fleet of 37 aircraft. A new route was introduced this quarter: Phuket – Kuala Lumpur; while frequencies were increased in three routes: Bangkok – Surat Thani, Phuket and Khon Kaen.
Indonesia AirAsia (“IAA”) too recorded a load factor of 78%, down just 1 ppt y-o-y. Total number of passengers carried grew by 3% y-o-y to 2.0 million while capacity increased by 5% y-o-y. No aircraft was added into IAA this quarter but y-o-y, a total of 6 aircraft was added. At the end of the quarter under review, IAA has a total fleet of 30 aircraft. IAA increased its frequencies in three existing routes this quarter: Surabaya – Jakarta; Bandung – Surabaya and Kuala Lumpur.
Philippines’AirAsia (“PAA”) reported a load factor of 77%, an increase of 3 ppts from 74% recorded during the same period last year. The number of passengers carried saw a high growth of 560% y-o-y to 0.92 million. Growth in capacity was also high at 534%. This quarter, PAA took in a new aircraft whilst y-o-y PAA received 17 additional aircraft (a significant increase due to the acquisition of Zest Air). PAA’s total number of fleet now stands at 19 aircraft. Frequencies were added on four existing routes: Manila – Incheon, Tacloban, Tagbilaran, and Puerto Princesa.
*Group refers to MAA, TAA, IAA, & PAA

 


AirAsia X Berhad (“AAX” or “the Company”), the long-haul, low cost airline affiliate of the AirAsia Group is pleased to announce its operating statistics for the 2nd Quarter 2014 (“2Q14”).
AAX’s planned capacity expansion to achieve and maintain global leadership in the long-haul LCC market continued with a 47% year-on-year growth in Available-Seat-KM (“ASK”) to 6,265 million. This increase arose primarily from capacity introduced in the second-half of 2013 to the Company’s core markets in Australia and North Asia. This new capacity is now reaching its third quarter of maturity. In terms of quarter-on-quarter growth, ASK grew by only 0.7% from the 6,220 million ASKs recorded in 1Q14. The quarterly growth primarily came from the launch of new services to Nagoya, Japan, which commenced on 17 March 2014. The slower quarter-on-quarter growth throughout 2014 is designed to provide the time required for the new capacity in 2013 to mature and reach profitability.
The company recorded passenger traffic in 2Q14, measured in Revenue-Passenger-KM (“RPK”) of 5,036 million, a growth of 44% year-on-year, which resulted in a passenger load factor of 80.4% as compared to 81.8% in the same quarter last year, a decline of 1.4 percentage points. AAX carried 1.02 million passengers in 2Q14, a y-o-y surge of 46% from 0.70 million in 2Q13. This resulted in the Company maintaining its position as the market leader in passengers carried to each of its core markets in Australia and North Asia.
In terms of cargo traffic, AAX’s Freight-Tonne-KM (“FTK”) was 7.2% lower y-o-y, while cargo capacity in Available-Tonne-KM (“ATK”) increased by 27.9% y-o-y. Consequently, cargo load factor fell by 16.7 percentage points to 44.2%.
During the same period of review, the Company’s fleet size expanded from 14 to 23 aircraft. For 2Q14, AAX took delivery of an A330-300 on operating lease, bringing its total number of A330-300s to 20, including two A330-300s leased to Thai AirAsia X and one A330-300 leased to Indonesia AirAsia X. The Company also has two A340-300s and one A330-200 in its fleet, which were actively deployed for wet lease and charter operations during the quarter. AAX has launched 4 new routes year-to-date, namely Nagoya, Xian, Narita and Chongqing expanding its route network to a total of 21 destinations.
Edited by flee

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Passenger Traffic Snapshot, January to July 2014
MALAYSIA AIRPORTS HOLDINGS BERHAD

 

 

Traffic performance to date
For the first seven months of 2014, MAHB airports passengers grew by 10% over the same period in 2013. Cumulatively the airports handled 47.7million passengers. KLIA registered 28.2million passengers with 8.1% growth over the same period in 2013. On a 12-month basis from August 2013 to July 2014 taking into account seasonal variations, overall passengers grew by 13.1%. Aircraft movements registered 8.8% growth up to July 2014.
Overall July traffic
Aircraft movements for July 2014 increased by 2.8%. International movements increased by 3.6% while domestic sector increased by 2.3%. It should be noted that half of July 2013 was Ramadhan as compared to full July 2014. MAHB’s passenger traffic declined by 0.4% in July 2014 compared to July 2013, registering a total of 6.3million passenger movements. International traffic grew by 1.6% while the domestic sector declined by 2.3% over the same period last year. This traffic performance is better than expected considering bulk of July 2014 was a Ramadhan month where travel is generally subdued.
KLIA traffic
There was a high number double digit frequencies cut in the domestic sector by the domestic carriers. However, the international aircraft movements increased by 6%. KLIA passenger movements declined by 1% in July 2014 over July 2013. International passenger traffic increased by 3% but domestic passengers decreased by a high 10.4%. KLIA-Main traffic decreased by 12.1% while klia2 grew by 13.1%. Part of this was due to the shift of Lion Air and Malindo Airways from KLIA-Main to klia2 on 2 May 2014. The decline in domestic passenger was more than expected.
Overview of traffic
The weekly July 2014 traffic show improving trend. From the first to the fourth week, the year on year traffic continued to improve from a decline of 20.7% for the first week to a smaller decline of 4.4% in the second week to 3.3% and 12.7% in the last week.
The decline of July 2014 numbers was mainly due to a notable drop of domestic traffic at KLIA. There were more direct domestic flights from and to MASB airports which registered a growth of 2.1%. This is a natural development as the traffic base increases at the smaller airports. Longer-term, this is an encouraging trend for KLIA, as international traffic strengthens whilst domestic traffic increases in its efficiency. An example is for passengers to be able to fly direct from Miri to Kuala Terengganu without having to transit via KLIA.
While MH370 incident continues to have some impact on the China sector, MH17 incident may add further pressure to Malaysia Airlines operations. However, other competing airlines are increasingly adding frequencies to some of Malaysia Airlines affected routes. Notwithstanding this, the resurgence of Malaysia Airlines will significantly contribute to the more dynamic growth in air traffic. Furthermore, there are signs of improvement in the seat capacity offerings of KUL-China sector. Winter seat capacity offering from October is already in the positive territory as compared to the current negative trend.
Industry Outlook
The current global geopolitical events may have an impact on the traffic growth. Latest international and domestic seat capacity data shows a lower increase of 5.2% and 1.8% respectively for the next five months, lower than previous indications of about a 10% growth rate.

 

IMF has lowered the forecasted global GDP by 0.3% to 3.4% reflecting lower first quarter particularly in the United States, and a less optimistic outlook for several emerging markets. Increased geopolitical risk due to recent developments in the Middle East and Ukraine could lead to sharply higher oil prices, which may negatively affect consumer sentiment for leisure travel. The current Ebola outbreak is a cause for concern. Based on past experience related to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), a pandemic outbreak can have a significant negative effect on air travel, although Ebola concerns are focused less on Asia than Africa.
Nevertheless, based on the current year-to-date traffic performance and the identified volatilities, MAHB expects the year to end with about 85million passengers or about 7% growth over the final 2013 total numbers.

 

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World's top 30 busiest airports from 1 January until 31 May 2014.



KLIA is world's 19th busiest airport on 31 May 2014.



KLIA's ranking has been gradually going down from 16th in March and 17th in April following the aftershock of MH370 tragedy. The full effect of MH17 tragedy is still awaiting. Per the current MAHB stats for July 2014, KLIA's cumulative year-to-date growth rate is only 8.1%, down from more than 20% just last year.



ASEAN Big 4:


11. Jakarta 22,737,995 (-4.5%)


15. Singapore 21,952,802 (+1.8% )


19. KLIA 20,267,861 (+11.6%)


21. Suvarnabhumi 19,636,682 (-9.9%)



Highest Growth:


1. Sao Paulo +13.8%


2. KLIA +11.6%


3. Istanbul +10.2%


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Malaysia Airports records fall in passenger movements in August

 

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) reported 6.9 million passenger movements in August for all airports, down 5.2% from a higher base a year ago with the KLIA’s China sector continuing to see a double-digit fall of about 20%.
MAHB said on Thursday the international and domestic movements recorded a decline of 3.8% and 6.4% respectively.
“Promotional tourism events have been scaled down significantly in the aftermath of MH370 and MH17 and this seems to have had some negative impact on both international and domestic traffic,” it explained.
MAHB added the impact on domestic traffic due to the shift of holidays was obvious especially on domestic travel between Peninsular and East Malaysia.
“Nevertheless, passenger traffic of 6.9 million for August 2014 remains above the 6.6 million average recorded for 2013, which was a record year for passengers. Despite the negative growth the traffic numbers appear to sustain at a new and higher level than 2013’s already strong and robust level,” it said.
MAHB pointed out August 2014 was rather a non-event month compared to a year ago when August 2013 recorded the highest ever traffic growth of 27.8% increase for a single month, over August 2012, as the major festive Hari Raya period and school holidays coincided in the same month.
“The negative growth in August 2014 was to a large extent caused by the unusually high base in 2013,” it explained.
MAHB said the domestic decline was mainly due to KLIA where it recorded a 13.5% decline on-year, which was was partly expected as home-based carriers continued to focus on growing international routes and frequencies.
“The average load factor for August 2014 was logged at 70.2%, a drop of 4 percentage points compared to August 2013. This is also sometimes a feature of new frequencies or routes. August 2014 aircraft movements grew by 1% over August 2013,” it explained.
At the KLIA, August 2014 passenger movements fell 6.1% on-year. Domestic sector fell 13.5% as airlines have been reducing frequencies in the domestic sector since April 2014.
MAHB pointed out this might be the continuation of a possible reversion to the mean long-term growth rates, in light of the 22% growth in 2013.
While main domestic airlines flew marginally more seats than what was filed through the schedules for August 2014, other domestic airlines’ actual seats flown softened noticeably.
“International sector declined by 2.8% in August 2014. klia2 passenger movements registered a growth of 7.1% over August 2013 whilst KLIA-Main traffic decreased by 16.5%.
“This is in large part attributable to the shift of Lion Air and Malindo Air from KLIA-Main to klia2. There was also a marginal drop in passenger movements observed, two weeks after the downing of MH17,” it said.
MAHB also pointed out KLIA’s China sector continued to experience a double digit decline of about 20%, while Europe sector recorded 4.1% growth in August 2014.
“Kota Kinabalu’s international traffic registered a double digit decline due to the impact from China sector,” it said.
MAHB also said Kota Kinabalu and Kuching’s Singapore traffic was affected by certain foreign airlines’ difficulties though this might only be a short term impact before the traffic is taken over by other airlines.
However, there is cause for optimism that this may likely be only a short-term impact as other airlines have shown keen interest to either inject more capacity or introduce direct routes from North Asian markets to these two airports.
This is also a natural evolution of traffic flows as the outbound (Malaysian) market can be served by other airlines already flying that route, whilst the inbound (foreigners) market gains sufficient critical mass to attract direct flights rather than making a stop (in either KLIA or Singapore) before heading to these two airports.

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The first full month report after the MH17 tragedy.

 

8.1%. KLIA's double digit growth run is finally over.

 

KLIA's cumulative annual growth further declined to 7.9% for Jan-Aug 2014 from 8.1% for Jan-Jul 2014.

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Cathay Pacific pax up 4% with 87% load factor in Aug-2014, cargo up 20%

 

Cathay Pacific General Manager Revenue Management Patricia Hwang said: “August was the busiest month of the year so far for our passenger business with new highs recorded for passenger volumes on both Cathay Pacific and Dragonair. Demand on long-haul routes was strong throughout August and our business to and from North America was helped by the introduction of additional frequencies on the Chicago route. We saw an encouraging pick-up in demand to Bangkok, but Korea remained the most popular destination for leisure travellers out of Hong Kong. Demand in the premium cabins continued to be ahead of expectations.”

Cathay Pacific General Manager Cargo Sales & Marketing Mark Sutch said: “Demand remained robust throughout August and the year-on-year tonnage increase was again well above expectations. Demand out of Hong Kong and the key manufacturing regions in Mainland China remained strong and we hope to see a further uptick in September as new consumer IT products are launched in the market. The Americas remain the key focus of our cargo business and we will extend our presence further with a new freighter service to Calgary and increased frequencies to Columbus in October, and more flights to Mexico from November.”

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World's top 30 busiest airports from 1 January until 30 June 2014.

 

KLIA is world's 20th busiest airport on 30 June 2014.

 

KLIA's ranking has been gradually going down from 16th in March, 17th in April and 19th in May following the aftershock of MH370 tragedy. The full effect of MH17 tragedy is still awaiting. Per the current MAHB stats for August 2014, KLIA's cumulative year-to-date growth rate is only 7.9%, down from more than 20% just last year.

 

ASEAN Big 4:

11. Jakarta 27,882,000 (-5.1%)

15. Singapore 26,606,802 (+1.4% )

20. KLIA 24,458,182 (+9.7%)

22. Suvarnabhumi 22,577,808 (-12.1%)

 

Highest Growth:

1. Istanbul +10.1%

2. KLIA +9.7%

ACIJun2014.PNG

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The kidnapping and terrorist activities in the East Coast is taking its' toll.

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We here in KCH can only clap our hands and watch quietly as we fly to KUL n SIN for connections...btw...MW is halting 4X weekly BWN...haiz...KCH...the land behind forest curtain...

Edited by Kenneth Chong WT

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The kidnapping and terrorist activities in the East Coast is taking its' toll.

I believe it has more to do with the Mainland Chinese travel agencies boycott after MH370 went missing rather than the kidnapping problem in the Sabah East Coast. MH385/MH384 used to be full with connecting passengers from China Eastern Airlines. But now there hardly is any Mainland Chinese traveling on these two flights. Spring Airlines resumed its 4x weekly flights between BKI and PVG for a few weeks and it was canceled again. China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines never resumed their flights to BKI.

 

Two of my cousins are tour guide and they said Hong Kongers are still coming to BKI but many made a request to the travel agency they booked their trip with to re-book them to the Dragonair flight.

Edited by Isaac

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Not surprising that PEN can overtake BKI by end of this year. Even if not, the margin is getting thinner.

 

Not sure if that would be the case. BKI is an important hub in the East. Whereas PEN is more like a terminus. A hub vs. a terminus?

World's top 30 busiest airports from 1 January until 30 June 2014.

 

KLIA is world's 20th busiest airport on 30 June 2014.

 

KLIA's ranking has been gradually going down from 16th in March, 17th in April and 19th in May following the aftershock of MH370 tragedy. The full effect of MH17 tragedy is still awaiting. Per the current MAHB stats for August 2014, KLIA's cumulative year-to-date growth rate is only 7.9%, down from more than 20% just last year.

 

ASEAN Big 4:

11. Jakarta 27,882,000 (-5.1%)

15. Singapore 26,606,802 (+1.4% )

20. KLIA 24,458,182 (+9.7%)

22. Suvarnabhumi 22,577,808 (-12.1%)

 

Highest Growth:

1. Istanbul +10.1%

2. KLIA +9.7%

 

Suvarnabhumi's traffic -12.71% probably due to the recent political climate in Thailand!

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It does, but actually the main reason is because of the reopening of DMK. A lot of airlines moved from BKK to DMK - all of AirAsia group of airlines, Lion group of airlines, Thai Smile etc.

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2014 Q2 Malaysia airport passengers traffic:

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2014 1H passenger traffic for Malaysia airports

 

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Source: http://www.mot.gov.my/my/Statistics/Aviation/2014%202%20-%20SUKU%20II%202014/Jadual%204.5.pdf

 

So its seems Berjaya has stopped flying to Pangkor based on the passenger figures and there is no mention of Pangkor flights on there website. I had an enjoyable flight there and back on the Dash 7 last year but the flight had only about 12 pax going and 15 coming back. Is the airfield closed now or still available to private aircraft?

 

Passengers to Tioman and Redang way down. The tourist trade must be being hit bad.

 

Geoff

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