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Cathay Pacific with 61.6% growth in February passenger numbers
March 22nd 2024
On March 21 Cathay Pacific released its traffic figures for February 2024, showing strong travel demand throughout the month, in particular during the Lunar New Year holiday period. Read More » The airline carried a total of 1,801,174 passengers during this month, a 61.6% growth year on year (YoY). The month’s revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) increased 50.3% YoY, capacity (ASKs) 57.3% YoY, while passenger load factor decreased by 3.8 percentage points to 82.4%. In the first two months of 2024, the number of passengers carried increased by 63.9% against a 60.6% increase in ASKs and a 53.4% increase in RPKs, as compared with the same period for 2023. On February 18 the Hong Kong-based airline carried more than 70,000 passengers and operated a total of 272 passenger flight sectors, the most on a single day since the start of the pandemic.
