Aer Lingus traffic statistics for November

Today, Aer Lingus released the traffic statistics for November 2008 . Total passengers carried for the month were 741k, down 3.6% Year on Year ( YoY) on the same month in 2007. Short haul was down 1.2% but longhaul was down a massive 17.2%, even though capacity was only 10.8% lower. On the all important load factor figures, short haul was flat at 71.8% YoY but long haul was down 8.1% to 72.9% for the month. Year to date, load factor is down 4% at 74.8%. The company has also released it's punctuality figures for November which exhibited the best performance of the year so far. For the month, 83% left on time with 97% departing within 1 hour of scheduled departure.