[ET Net News Agency, 16 May 2018] China Eastern Airlines (00670) said it carried about
10.27 million passengers in April, an increase of 15% from a year earlier.
For the first four months of 2018, the accumulated number of passengers carried amounted
to 38.99 million, an increase of 9.6% over the same period last year.
Passenger transportation capacity (measured by available seatkilometres) of China
Eastern Airlines in April rose 10% year-on-year, passenger traffic volume (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) grew 14.4% year-on-year, and passenger load factor increased
by 3.26 percentage points to 84.65% year-on-year.
Freight transportation capacity (measured by available freight tonne-kilometres) in
April rose 16.3% year-on-year. Freight traffic volume (measured by revenue freight
tonne-kilometres) expanded 5.7% year-on-year, while freight load factor decreased by 3.38
percentage points to 33.67% year-on-year. (HL)