4 Jul 2013 12:58
fastjet plc
("fastjet" or the "Company")
4th July 2013
FastJet Passenger Statistics for June 2013
Ed Winter, Chief Executive Officer of fastjet said: "We continue to grow in popularity, performance and revenue. As reported recently, June revenue in Tanzania exceeded $2.2m, which is a 22% increase on the previous month. Fastjet load factors for the month grew from 68% to 78%, with yield per seat also growing substantially.
Also as previously announced, in June fastjet carried its 200,000th paying passenger including infants.
Additionally we can announce that we have today received our Foreign Operator Permit from the South African Department of Transport. This means that the final administrative hurdle has been overcome so are confident that the important and popular Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg route will be on sale soon.
We believe we are well on the way to becoming the first pan African low cost carrier."
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All Operations Note 1
Month ending June 2013 June 2012 Change
Passengers Note 2 81,351 53,258 52.8%
Rolling 12 months ending June 2013 June 2012 Change
Passengers Note 2 862,237 588,242 46.6%
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fastjet Operations Note 4
Month ending May 2013 May 2012 Change
Passengers Note 2 27,398 0 N/A
Load Factor Note 3 77% 0 N/A
Rolling 12 months ending June 2013 June 2012 Change
Passengers Note 2 195,912 0 N/A
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Notes:
1. "All Operations" includes statistics for fastjet Tanzania, Fly540 Kenya, Fly540 Ghana and Fly540 Angola.
2. "Passengers" for 540 operationsare flown passengers and for fastjet operations are sold seats flown, in both cases excluding infants. Fastjet bookings are generally non refundable whereas 540 bookings are in some circumstances refundable.
3. "Load Factor" is the number of 'passengers" as a percentage of the number of available seats flown.
4. "fastjet Operations" includes only statistics for Fastjet Tanzania operations which commenced on 29th November 2012
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