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China Southern Airlines tops 17 million passengers in August
September 16th 2026
China Southern Airlines (CSA) flew 17.3 million passengers on its domestic, international and regional flights in August, up 2.7% from 16.9 million in the same month a year ago. Read More » The increase was led by CSA’s international flying, which achieved 9% growth to 2.1 million passengers in the month. The domestic operations had 2% more passengers at 15.1 million. However, CSA’s regional unit carried 0.7% fewer passengers year-on-year at 175,800. Passenger load factor rose 1.4 percentage points to 88.9% as capacity grew 3.6% and demand, or revenue passenger kilometres, climbed 4.8%. During August, CSA inducted five passenger aircraft while withdrawing two from the fleet, lifting its fleet by three to 977 by the end of the month, compared with July 31.
