JAPAN. Northern Japan’s Akita Airport registered 88,331 passengers in January, a decline of -3.2% compared to the same month last year.
The January figure marked the first year-on-year decrease since April 2003, which came mainly as a result of the cancellation of 600 flights by Japan Air System (JAS), prompted by the cracks found in the company’s aircraft engines.
Passengers on the Akita – Seoul route stood at 2,375, up +12.4%. Koreans made up 1,050 of the passengers on this destination. The average load factor on the Akita – Seoul destination stood at 57%, up 8.9 percentage points year-on-year and 13 percentage points month-on-month.
