[ET Net News Agency, 16 March 2022] Air China Limited (00753) said in February 2022,
the group recorded a year-on-year increase and a month-on-month increase in combined
passenger traffic (measured by revenue passenger kilometres (the RPK)). Passenger capacity
(measured by available seat kilometres (the ASK)) recorded a year-on-year increase of
23.1% and a month-on-month decrease of 6.3%. Passenger traffic recorded a year-on-year
increase of 28.6% and a month-on-month increase of 1.1%. Among which, for domestic routes,
passenger capacity increased by 21.2% year on year and decreased by 7.3% month on month,
and passenger traffic increased by 28.5% year on year and increased by 1.3% month on
month. For international routes, passenger capacity increased by 36.6% and 28.7% as
compared to the same period last year and the previous month, respectively, and passenger
traffic decreased by 34.3% and 8.7% as compared to the same period last year and the
previous month, respectively. For regional routes, passenger capacity increased by 142.6%
and decreased by 5.2% as compared to the same period last year and the previous month,
respectively, and passenger traffic recorded an increase of 215.3% year on year and a
decrease of 2% month on month.
The overall passenger load factor was 64.4%, representing an increase of 2.8 percentage
points as compared to the same period last year and an increase of 4.8 percentage points
as compared to the previous month. Among which, the passenger load factor for domestic
routes increased by 3.7 percentage points year on year and increased by 5.6 percentage
points month on month, the passenger load factor for international routes decreased by
21.6 percentage points and 8.2 percentage points as compared to the same period last year
and the previous month, respectively, and the passenger load factor for regional routes
increased by 12.6 percentage points year on year and increased by 1.8 percentage points
month on month.
In terms of cargo operations, cargo capacity (measured by available freight tonne
kilometres (the AFTK)) increased by 17.2% year on year, and cargo and mail traffic
(measured by revenue freight tonne kilometres (the RFTK)) decreased by 0.4% year on year.
The cargo load factor was 32.5%, representing a year-on-year decrease of 5.7 percentage
points. (RC)