subject: British Airways Also Reaping The Increased Tourist Boom Of 2010 [print this page] In the current year, Taipei, Seoul and Phuket have risen in the Western Tourist Map while flights to Johannesburg, Lusaka, Harare, Nairobi, Mombasa and other African Destinations have also crawled up higher. Flights to Australia, as well are facing an increase in number of arrivals as well as more airlines launching new routes and flights to Sydney. Other than that, flights to Cape Town and Durban will also have a busy December for being the warmer African Beaches.
Britains flagship carrier, British Airways is also enjoying its share of the big numbers as the carrier reported to fly almost 6% more passengers in November than in the same month last year. British Airways has celebrated its revenue passenger kilometers increased by 3.5% and that passenger capacity on its aircraft - measured in available seat kilometers (ASK) - was up 5.1% on November 2009, though load factors decreased by 1.2 percentage points to 74.7%. Premium traffic on British Airways continued to grow, up 4.5% year-on-year, while the numbers flying in economy (World Traveler) were up 3.2%.
However, bad weather, icy roads, flight disruptions and Spanish Strike are the inertia factors likely to reduce the speed of success. The airline has warned that flight cancellations, especially at Gatwick Airport, that remained closed for most part of the first week of December due to adverse weather conditions, will peg-back numbers in the current month.
Any Christmas Special promotional fare deal, if introduced can possibly help in encouraging people to travel more and help the airlines to overcome loses due to bad weather.
by: Travelhouseuk
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