• SAS Group’s capacity (ASK) was up by 10.4% and the Group’s traffic (RPK) increased by 1.5%.
• The SAS Group’s load factor decreased by 6.1 p.u. to 69.5%.
• SAS Group carried 2.5 million passengers in April, up 6.5%.

Group market trends, RASK and yield development
The traffic continued to develop as expected during April with number of passengers growing primarily on shorter routes. However, despite good response to the increased capacity, demand did not match and the load was lower, due to the timing of Easter and also due to the launch of 8 European routes since 31 March where demand still is seasonally relatively low.

Currency adjusted yield (Scandinavian Airlines) in March 2013 was down 2.7% versus previous year and RASK was down 3.9%, due to the timing of Easter as expected. In April 2013 the change in yield vs. last year is expected to be positive and the change in RASK to be in line with last year.

Overall, the market demand continues to be good. Despite yield has been...