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Miserable January for SIA Group
February 16th 2021
SIA Group flew 78,400 passengers in January, down 97.7% from 3.4 million in the same month a year ago. Read More » In addition to the year-on-year decline, the January figure was lower, by 8%, from the 85,200 travellers Singapore Airlines, SilkAir and Scoot transported in December. "In January 2021, demand for air travel continued to remain depressed from worldwide border controls and travel restrictions," SIA Group said in its monthly traffic report, published yesterday. "The global roll-out of vaccines in many countries, including Singapore, provides hope an end may finally be in sight to the pandemic and its debilitating impact on the aviation industry," the company said. January passenger load factor was down 11.3%, from 13.7% in December, and 84.5% compared with January last year.
