Japan Airlines releases 2016 New Year vacation traffic forecast

JAL Group reports its traffic forecast for the 2016 New Year vacation period.

Today, JAL Group (JAL) forecasted a total of 268,464 passengers traveling on its international flights during the Japanese New Year vacation period from December 25, 2015 to January 3, 2016 based on current reservation figures. The total number of people traveling to and from Japan is expected to increase 2.7% compared to the same period last year, and the number of available seats is 2.3% up than previous year.

On the international routes, especially Southeast Asia, Oceania, Hawaii and Guam routes are showing favorable demand. Growth of inbound traffic contributes the improvement of overall international booking factor to 86.0%, increased by 0.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year.

On the domestic routes, passenger bookings now is improving by 2.0% to 916,016 than last year, while the domestic seat capacity 3.3% down on the same period last year. The overall booking factor for domestic JAL Group flights at present is 69.9% that is 3.6 percentage points increase compared to last year.

AL Group International Bookings (December 25, 2015 - January 3, 2016)

Routes

Available Seat Change on 2015(%)

Passenger Numbers

Pax Change

on 2015(%)

Booking Factor

(%)

Transpacific

+14.4

34,557

+18.3

84.1

Europe

+5.2

21,118

-1.6

81.6

S.E. Asia

-1.5

66,346

+2.3

94.1

Oceania

+3.0

4,827

+5.8

91.8

China

+10.5

60,007

+10.3

77.6

Korea

-21.5

20,314

-17.6

90.5

Taiwan

+1.7

26,951

-4.3

84.4

Hawaii

-0.6

29,947

+0.6

90.5

Guam

No Change

4,397

-0.4

92.8

TOTAL

+2.3

268,464

+2.7

86.0

During 2016 New Year vacation period, JAL will operate 3 chartered flights to Palau as well as 3 extra flights to Honolulu.

Source: Japan Airlines releases 2016 New Year vacation traffic forecast