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China Eastern Airlines 2024 international air traffic up by more than 200%
January 16th 2025
China Eastern Airlines (CEA) carried 140.6 million passengers in 2024, a 21.6% increase against 2023, including a 17.2 million jump (151.7%) on international routes compared with the previous 12 months. Read More » Passenger traffic increased 34.9% against 2023 including 144.6% growth on international routes. Overall capacity expanded by 21.2% year-on-year and passenger load factor increased 8.4 percentage points to 82.82%. CEA’s passenger traffic for December was 105.97% compared with the same month in 2019. Revenue Passenger Kilometres increased 17.33% year-on-year, to 110.41% of the 31 days in 2019 and passenger load factor was higher by 7.45% year-on-year to 83.51%, an increase of 3.36% over pre-pandemic 2019. At December 31, 2024 CEA was operating 804 aircraft.
