November 18 (SeeNews) - Romanian state-owned flag carrier TAROM has reported a 10.6% annual drop in the number of passengers it carried in January-September this year to 1.194 million, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) said.
TAROM’s passenger load factor was 55.6% through September, down 8.5 percentage points from a year ago, AEA said in a report.
In September alone, TAROM transported 164,400 passengers, 1.7% less than a year ago. The passenger load factor for the month was 64.7%, 2.4 percentage points lower than in September 2008.
AEA is the organisation of 33 European carriers which transport collectively 366 million passengers and 7 million tonnes of cargo each year. They operate 2,617 aircraft serving 662 destinations in 162 countries with a combined 11,585 flights a day.