Cathay traffic climbs in August
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Cathay Pacific Airways has released the combined Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for August 2011 showing a year-on-year increase in passenger numbers.
The two airlines carried a total of 2.51 million passengers last month – up 3.6% on the same month last year – while capacity for the month was up by 7.0%. This caused passenger load factor to fall by 0.2 percentage points to a still strong 84.2%. Strong growth was seen on routes to and from Southeast Asia (+13.5%) and North America (+16.3%), although Northeast Asian routes experienced a 7.5% year-on-year drop in demand.
Year-to-date, the number of passengers carried increased by 2% while capacity was up by 9.1%. Load factors fell 3.7 points to 80.8%.
Cathay Pacific’s General Manager Revenue Management, James Tong said; “Traffic in the summer peak remained strong and the increase in demand, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK) was in line with capacity growth. We continued to see a strong performance in the region, in particular from Southeast Asia, South Korea and the secondary Chinese cities, though demand in the Middle East remained weak. Our premium traffic continued to have a strong performance and we are seeing good growth in terms of both volume and yield.”
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