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Estonian Air carried 553,147 passengers during 2014, marking an increase of 0.4 percent over the preceding year when passengers carried by planes of the state-owned airline numbered 551,169.
Estonian Air carried 0.4 pct more passengers in 2014
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The number of passengers carried in December was 39,551, 3.7 percent less than in December 2013.
Estonian Air operated 11,063 flights during the year, 2.5 percent more than in 2013, including 835 in December. The load factor of Estonian Air regular flights was 65.3 percent, 1.6 percentage points lower than in 2013.
«The overall traffic figures of 2014 on our core routes were in line with the forecast. At the same time, the crisis we witnessed throughout last year, followed by an economic slowdown, has rapidly changed the market conditions with substantially lower passenger volumes on the Kiev, St. Petersburg and Moscow routes,» said Indrek Randveer, CCO of Estonian Air. «Like other airlines in northern Europe, we've been facing intensified international competition and tough price competition,» he said.
The number of charter flights increased by 166 percent over 2013. «We kept our aircraft in regular operation and thereby used the free capacity of our fleet economically,» Randveer added.
The 15-minute punctuality of Estonian Air flights was 92.9 percent in 2014, an improvement by 1.7 percentage points over the year before. The regularity of Estonian Air flights was 99.0 percent, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points compared to 2013. In December the punctuality and regularity ratios were 90.3 percent and 98.4 percent, respectively.
Estonian Air, Estonia's national carrier, is the biggest operator at Tallinn Airport. The airline flies regular routes to Arlanda and Bromma near Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Vilnius and Trondheim. From December 2014 to October 2015, Estonian Air operates seasonal flights to Munich. In addition, from March to October 2015, Estonian Air flies to Paris and Berlin, from April to October to Nice, Vienna and Split, and from April to November to Milan.