China Eastern Airlines records 2.6% passenger increase in traffic update

June 16th 2023

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China Eastern Airlines (CEA) carried 9.1 million domestic passengers in May, up from 8.8 million passengers in April. Read More » The results were 505.3% higher than the 1.5 million domestic passengers the airline flew in the same month in 2022. Domestic passenger load factor for the 31 days was 71.4%, slightly lower than the 73.5% recorded in April, but a big jump from 61.8% a year ago. Compared with its pre-COVID-19 flying, the SkyTeam alliance member's May 2023 domestic passenger total was 99.9% of the 9.07 million in-country customers the airline carried in May 2019. Domestic capacity was 124.8% against the same month four years ago.