JET FUEL: Europe’s Air Traffic Up 2.0% on Week: Eurocontrol

Mar-12 14:13

European air traffic recorded 26,476 average daily flights in the seven days to March 9, up around 2.0% on the week across the top ten countries, according to Eurocontrol

  • Last week’s levels were up around 6% versus 2024. Year to date traffic is around 96% of 2019 levels and up 5% on the year, Eurocontrol added.
  • Germany recorded the greatest weekly increase in flights, up 9%, principally due to a recovery from a ground staff strike at German airports, Eurocontrol said.
  • The top 10 largest operators recorded 2.9% more flights than the previous week, with a rise in traffic from 6 of the 10 (falls from Turkish Airlines, KLM, Wizz Air, and Vueling).
  • Lufthansa, saw the greatest percentage increase, up 15% to 1,076 average daily flights.
  • All top 10 operators apart from Turkish Airlines have more daily flights compared to the same period in 2024. 5 of the 10 are higher than 2019 levels, with Ryanair’s daily flights up 40% and Wizz Air’s up 67%.
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Source: Eurocontrol

Historical bullets

STIR: Effective Fed Funds Rate

Feb-10 14:04
  • FRBNY EFFR for prior session:
    • Daily Effective Fed Funds Rate: 4.33% (+0.00), volume: $107B
    • Daily Overnight Bank Funding Rate: 4.33% (+0.00), volume: $286B
  • Earlier Repo Reference Rates
    • Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR): 4.35% (-0.01), volume: $2.336T
    • Broad General Collateral Rate (BGCR): 4.34% (+0.00), volume: $929B
    • Tri-Party General Collateral Rate (TCR): 4.34% (+0.00), volume: $901B
    • (rate, volume levels reflect prior session)

BONDS: Broader buying interest going through in Futures

Feb-10 14:03
  • Overall Volumes are below averages in Government Bonds on both sides of the Atlantic, but there has been some pick up in demand in the past 10 minutes or so.
  • TYA is bought in 10k cumulative volumes, FVA 5k, USA 2k and in Europe, Schatz and Bund in 5k respectively.
  • We already noted on the Bund open that the German contract was already trading at pre NFP level, and that the initial resistance is still unchanged at 133.86.
  • For the US Tnotes (TYH5), the contract would need a test to 109.18 to trade at pre NFP levels now trading at 109.09.

SLOVAKIA: On offer next week

Feb-10 14:01

Slovakia has announced it will be looking to sell the following at its auction next Monday, February 17:

  • the 3.00% Feb-28 SlovGB (ISIN: SK4000024683)
  • the 3.75% Mar-34 SlovGB (ISIN: SK4000024865)
  • the 3.75% Feb-35 SlovGB (ISIN: SK4000022539)
  • the 2.00% Oct-47 SlovGB (ISIN: SK4120013400)