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Issue 2 2012: 08 Wedne esday, 25 A April 2012 For Immediate Re elease March 2012 / Traf / Prelim ffic minary

As Pacific Airlines Tr sia A raffic Resu March 2012 ults

P traffic figures for the mo s onth of Mar released rch d Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Preliminary t by ociation of A Asia Pacific Airlines (AA APA) showe sustained growth in ed n today b the Asso internat tional air pas ssenger dem mand, but int ternational a cargo markets remain weak. air ned rted by an i improvemen in busine nt ess travel markets, airlines based in the Asia m a Suppor Pacific region carrie a combin total of 17.2 million internationa passengers in March, ed ned al , me ast ternational p passenger d demand, as s 10.6% more than in the sam month la year. Int red in reven nue passeng kilometre (RPK) term grew by 9.4%, whilst available ger e ms, y e measur seat ca apacity expa anded by 5.6%, resulting in a 2.7 percentage point increase in the 7 e e average internation passenge load facto to 76.8%. e nal er or tional air cargo demand in freight t d, tonne kilome etre (FTK) te erms, declin by 4.5% ned % Internat compar red to the sa ame month last year, a reflection of lacklustre export-impo markets. o ort . Offered freight capacity contracted by 4.1% resulting in a margin 0.2 perce d %, nal entage point t fall in th average international air cargo lo factor fo the region carriers t 69.3% for he oad or ns to r the mon nth. enting on the results, M Andrew H Mr. Herdman, A AAPA Directo General said, Were or s e Comme seeing sustained growth in pa g assenger de emand, with Asian airlin carrying 7.6% more nes e tional passengers in the first quarter of this yea compared to the same period last e ar e t internat year, underpinned by robust d demand in t the Asia Pa acific region, and an im mproving US S my. al traffic for the first quarte fell by 4.1% e er econom On the other hand, internationa air cargo t year-on n-year, reflec cting a soft market and lingering co oncerns ove weakening consumer er r demand particularl in Europe. d, ly

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25 April 2012 Issue 2012: 08 ed, obal macro-e economic ou utlook is stil overshado ll owed by the e Mr. Herdman adde The glo ally o y rices, and po growth p oor prospects in n potentia dampening effects of stubbornly high oil pr Europe, but Asian economies are still d n s delivering ro obust growth Neverthe h. eless, airline e s e f urther efforts s margins remain under pressure from high fuel costs, focusing attention on fu to tightly control cos and care sts efully match capacity to m market demand.

TRA AFFIC UPDA ATE PRELIMINARY In nternational Scheduled S Services of Asia Pacific Airlines
In nternational Pa assengers (00 00) RP (mn.) PK AS (mn.) SK Pa assenger Loa Factor ad FT (mn.) TK FA ATK (mn.) Fr reight Load Factor Mar-12 17,217 64,355 83,811 76.8% 5,382 7,770 69.3%

Mar-11 15,571 58,811 79,331 74.1% 5,633 8,104 69.5%

% Change + 10.6% + 9.4% + 5.6% + 2.7 pp - 4.5% - 4.1% - 0.2 pp

Jan-Mar 2012 50,236 189,829 246,940 76.9% 14,239 21,801 65.3%

Jan-Ma 2011 ar 46,6 673 177, ,460 232, ,836 76.2 2% 14,8 843 22,2 234 66.8%

% Change + 7.6% + 7.0% + 6.1% + 0.7 pp - 4.1% - 1.9% - 1.5 pp

Aggrega ated traffic data fo 24 Asia Pacific based carriers or Previous year data adjus s sted for comparis purposes son RPK = re evenue passeng kilometres ger ASK = a available seat kilo ometres FTK = fr reight tonne kilom metres FATK = available freight tonne kilometres s es, ng isional All figure including estimates for missin data, are provi

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Associa ation of Asia Pacific Airline (AAPA) P es The AAP is the trade association for scheduled international airlines based in the Asia-P PA e d d Pacific region. . The AAPA permanen secretariat is headquar nt rtered in Kua Lumpur, M ala Malaysia with international h l represen ntation in Brus ssels and Wa ashington, D.C Collectively, the regions airlines carry 650 million C. n passeng gers and 18 million tonnes of cargo, rep m presenting one e-quarter of global passeng traffic and ger d two-fifths of global air cargo traffic respectively, a thus play a critically im s and mportant role in the ongoing g developm ment of global aviation. her n, act: For furth information please conta Office of the Director General r 3 45 Tel +603 2145 5600 Fax +603 214 2500 Email: od dg@aapa.org.my

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