[ET Net News Agency, 16 November 2017] Cathay Pacific Airways (00293) today released
combined Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon traffic figures for October that show an
increase in both the number of passengers carried and cargo and mail uplifted compared to
the same month in 2016.
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of about 2.92 million passengers last
month, an increase of 6% from a year earlier. The passenger load factor dropped 0.2
percentage points to 81.3%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs),
increased by 4.6%. In the first ten months of 2017, the number of passenger carried
increased by 0.7% while capacity rose by 2.3%.
The two airlines carried 180,706 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of
4.8% compared to the same month last year. The cargo and mail load factor rose by 1.2
percentage points to 69.3%. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres,
was up by 2.4% while cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres (RTKs) increased by 4.2%. In
the first ten months of 2017, the tonnage rose by 10.8% against a 3.1% increase in
capacity and an 8.7% increase in RTKs. (HL)