Cathay demand down in December
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Cathay Pacific Airways has released the combined Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for December 08, showing a slight decrease in the number of passengers carried compared to December 2007, the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation reported.
During the month the two airlines carried a total of 2,110,719 passengers, down 0.3% year-on-year, while the load factor dipped by 1.8 percentage points to 79.0%. This compares to a 4.7% rise in passenger capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), for the month. For 2008 as a whole, the number of passengers carried was 24,959,429, a 7.3% rise, compared to a capacity increase of 12.7%.
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