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Cathay Pacific flew 31.4% more passengers after local entry rules relaxed
December 15th 2022
Cathay Pacific carried 526,827 passengers in November, up 31.4% from the 400,909 air travellers it transported in October. Read More » The November results also were a significant improvement over the 70,047 passengers the Hong Kong-headquartered carrier transported in the same month in 2021. CEO-designate, Ronald Lam, said “sentiment and demand for travel out of Hong Kong continued to improve in November”. Compared with pre-COVID-19 levels, the airline’s November passenger numbers were 20.1% of the 2.6 million travellers it flew in November 2019. Capacity for the month was 27% of pre-pandemic available seat kilometres. Travel demand continued to improve ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the airline said. “We expect short haul routes to leisure destinations such as Japan and Southeast Asia will remain strong and continue into the Chinese New Year holiday in late January,” Lam said.
