Economic crisis depresses December traffic results

The airfreight business of Swiss WorldCargo showed a positive overall trend for the year. Total cargo traffic was 7.3% up in revenue ton-kilometer terms; and cargo load factor (by volume) stood at a high 83.8%, only slightly down from the 84.6% of 2007.

Swiss's cargo business suffered a sizeable drop in demand: airfreight volumes for December 2008 were 12.9% below their prior-year equivalent in revenue ton-kilometer terms.