[ET Net News Agency, 17 September 2021] China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
(00670) said in August 2021, the company's passenger transportation capacity (measured by
available seat-kilometres) decreased by 41.79% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
transportation capacity of its domestic and international routes decreased by 42.72% and
15.00% year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger transportation capacity of its
regional routes increased by 79.54% year-on-year; passenger traffic volume (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) decreased by 55.70% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
traffic volume of its domestic routes decreased by 56.87% year-on-year, while the
passenger traffic volume of its international and regional routes increased by 0.27% and
143.95% year-on-year, respectively; and passenger load factor decreased by 17.52
percentage points year-on-year to 55.83%, among which, the passenger load factor of its
domestic routes decreased by 18.29 percentage points year-on-year, while the passenger
load factor of its international and regional routes increased by 9.26 and 10.78
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 August
2021, freight traffic volume decreased by 6.32% year-on-year. (RC)