BA trading conditions "broadly unchanged"

LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways (BAY.L) said on Tuesday that trading conditions were broadly unchanged in December and maintained its guidance for the current financial year.

BA said traffic in December fell by 3.4 percent on a year ago to 9.18 billion revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs).

Overall passenger numbers fell by 4.5 percent to 2.51 million while BA's passenger load factor -- a measure of how full its aircraft were -- fell by 0.2 percentage points to 76.7 percent of capacity.

(Reporting by Matt Scuffham; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)