[ET Net News Agency, 17 November 2017] China Eastern Airlines (00670) said it carried
about 9.63 million passengers in October, an increase of 7.5% from a year earlier.
For the first ten months of 2017, the accumulated number of passengers carried amounted
to about 92.2 million, up 8.2% year-on-year.
Passenger transportation capacity (measured by available seat-kilometres) of China
Eastern Airlines in October grew 10.1% year-on-year, passenger traffic (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) increased by 8.2% year-on-year, and passenger load factor
decreased by 1.4 percentage points to 80.06%.
Freight transportation capacity (measured by available freight tonne-kilometres) in
October rose 10.5% year-on-year. Freight traffic volume (measured by revenue freight
tonne-kilometres) increased by 5.6% year-on-year, while freight load factor decreased by
1.73 percentage points to 37.83%. (HL)