International Airlines Group (IAG)’s April cargo tonne kilometres rose by 1.9 per cent – from 432 million to 440m - compared with the same month in 2014. A 1.1 per cent fall in the British Airways figure (353m tonne-km in 2015 compared with 353m in 2014) was offset by a 16 per cent rise in Iberia’s traffic (87m t-km versus 75m t-km in 2014). The figures reflect the decision in May 2014 to axe the leased freighter fleet.
Year to date (January-April) cargo traffic was however down 2.7 per cent for IAG as a whole – 1,754m tonne-km versus 1,803m in 2014. The BA figure fell 4.6 percent while Iberia showed a 6 per cent increase.
Passenger traffic was up strongly for IAG – 7.9 per cent in April and 8.7 per cent for the year to date.
