[ET Net News Agency, 18 October 2021] China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
(00670) said in September 2021, the company's passenger transportation capacity (measured
by available seat-kilometres) decreased by 18.28% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
transportation capacity of its domestic and international routes decreased by 18.19% and
29.33% year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger transportation capacity of its
regional routes increased by 80.07% year-on-year; passenger traffic volume (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) decreased by 31.14% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
traffic volume of its domestic and international routes decreased by 31.63% and 12.88%
year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger traffic volume of its regional routes
increased by 212.63% year-on-year; and passenger load factor decreased by 12.10 percentage
points year-on-year to 64.79%, among which, the passenger load factor of its domestic
routes decreased by 12.77 percentage points year-on-year, while the passenger load factor
of its international and regional routes increased by 11.19 and 22.17 percentage points
year-on-year, respectively.
In relation to freight transportation, the freight transportation business of the
company includes passenger aircraft cargo business under conventional circumstances
(mainly passenger aircraft bellyhold space business) and passenger aircraft cargo business
under unconventional circumstances (mainly Passenger-to-Cargo Conversion business), and
such business is under exclusive operation by China Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. In September
2021, freight traffic volume increased by 3.78% year-on-year. (RC)