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Cathay group airlines carried 18.4% more passengers in latest month
June 20th 2024
Cathay Pacific and HK Express flew 11.2 million passengers in the first five months of the year, including 1.68 million air travellers in May. Read More » The latest monthly total was an 18.4% improvement over a year ago, the airline group said. Revenue passenger kilometers increased 20.8% against May 2023, but passenger load factor decreased by 4.8 percentage points, to 80.3%, after capacity injections. “While leisure traffic from Hong Kong declined, we saw increased demand from various countries in Southeast Asia due to school holidays. Additionally, our long-haul services were boosted by the return of student traffic to Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland from North America, resulting in 90% load factors on our United States and Canada routes,” chief customer and commercial officer, Lavinia Lau, said.
