Tuesday preview: Airline companies to unveil latest traffic stats

6th Jan 2014 14:40

A handful of airline groups will release their latest traffic statistics on Tuesday including International Consolidated Airlines (IAG), easyJet and Aer Lingus.IAG, the parent company of British Airways, will report its December traffic statistics while Europe's easyJet and Ireland's Aer Lingus will release full-year results. In November IAG unveiled that it had carried 26.8% more passengers than a year earlier. Revenue per passenger also rose by 1.6%. However, the passenger load factor fell 0.8 percentage points.Budget airline easyJet is expected to announce that it carried nearly 4.4m passengers in December, up more than 3%, according to the Mail on Sunday. Its capacity is tipped to have been 89% full over the month and, on a rolling 12-month basis, it is likely to have carried about 61m passengers in the past year. Aer Lingus is also expected see a significant pick-up in growth driven by long haul flights, Investec said in a note last month.Meanwhile, British home furnishings retailer Dunelm will issue a trading update."Last time out, at its Q1 trading update, Dunelm reported a disappointing result, with like-for-like (LFL) sales slowing from +1.1% through the previous six months to -5.3% (consensus: -2%)," Numis noted."However this was heavily impact by the heatwave in July, during which time LFLs approached -2%; supporting our view that the weak trading performance through Q1 was entirely attributable to the weather, management disclosed that August and September, while volatile, saw the group return to a small positive LFL run-rate."On the macro-front, Germany's unemployment rate will be released along with the nation's purchasing managers' index for construction.Tuesday January 7thINTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATEHill & Smith Holdings, Management Consulting Group, Sepura, TR Property Inv TrustINTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTSBalance of Trade (US) (13:30)Consumer Credit (US) (20:00)International Reserves (EU) (11:00)PMI Construction (GER) (08:55)Producer Price Index (EU) (10:00)Unemployment Rate (GER) (08:55)GMSKazakhmysIMSSTopps TilesTRADING ANNOUNCEMENTSDunelm GroupUK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTSNew Car Registrations (09:30)RD