euro adhoc: Austrian Airlines AG
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Qualitative growth and high service quality key factors in successful
improvement of result
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25.07.2006
Financial result of the Austrian Airlines Group, January to June 2006
Commenting on the Austrian Airlines Groups results for the first half-year of 2006, Alfred Ötsch, Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Management of the Austrian Airlines Group, made the following statement: The continued expansion of our market leadership in Eastern Europe in the first half-year has enabled us to achieve respectable, usually double-digit, levels of traffic growth, build market share gains and generate over 70% of the passenger growth at Vienna Airport. We have improved our adjusted EBIT by EUR 16.3m to EUR -47.8m compared to last year, despite having had to overcome an increase in kerosene expenditure of EUR 72 million. Had kerosene prices remained at last years level, we would actually have seen a substantial improvement in our result. As the second half of 2006 is likely to be dominated by factors including continued high kerosene prices that exceed our budgetary assumptions (already set high as a precautionary measure) and because of the negative consequences of the capacity bottlenecks that have emerged at Austrian air traffic control since spring, it has become necessary to correct our forecast result for the year as a whole. It will probably not be possible to achieve a balanced adjusted EBIT. Depending on the political and economic framework conditions, the annual result will prospectively be better than the previous year.
Half-Yearly Result - Summary
Key indicators 4-6/2006 +/- % 1-6/2006 +/- % Revenue EURm 676.0 9.9 1,222.8 13.5 EBITDAR adjusted1 EURm 88.2 -7.4 126.9 7.3 EBITDAR EURm 94.3 24.4 138.7 53.9 EBIT adjusted2 EURm 6.1 - -47.8 25.4 EBIT EURm 9.1 - -41.0 55.6 Loss before tax EURm -3.3 50.7 -71.0 15.0 adjusted2 Loss before tax EURm -3.9 82.8 -59.5 43.4 Cash flow from EURm 146.3 -5.3 195.1 9.7 operating activities Total passengers Passengers 2,870,620 +8.8 4,990,640 10.8 carried Passenger load factor % 71.9 0.0P. 72.1 2.1P. (scheduled services)
Footnotes - Legend of Table
1 Adjusted for profits / losses from the disposal of assets and exchange rate valuations at the reporting date.
2 Adjusted for profits / losses from the disposal of assets, exchange rate valuations at the reporting date and revaluations of aircraft.
end of announcement euro adhoc 25.07.2006 07:09:11
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