Air New Zealand carried 9.2 percent more passengers in October than a year earlier, with the biggest rise on domestic routes while the long haul increase was much smaller at 2.5 percent.
The airline today said it carried nearly 1.02 million passengers last month, with 674,000 of them on domestic routes, an increase for that category of 11.4 percent from October 2009.
The total for trans-Tasman and Pacific routes increased 6.8 percent from a year earlier to 220,000, while the 2.5 percent rise on long haul routes took passenger numbers to 123,000.
For the four months of the financial year so far the overall passenger numbers are up 7.4 percent from a year earlier to 4.42m, with domestic numbers up 8 percent to 2.85m, those on Tasman and Pacific routes up 7.8 percent to 1m, and long haul numbers up 3.7 percent to 566,000.
Revenue passenger kilometres -- the number of revenue passengers carried multiplied by the distance flown -- were up 6.1 percent overall to 2.04 billion in October, and up 6.3 percent to 9.22b for the financial year so far.
