[ET Net News Agency, 18 January 2021] China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
(00670) said in December 2020, the company's passenger transportation capacity (measured
by available seat-kilometres) decreased by 37.32% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
transportation capacity of its domestic, international and regional routes decreased by
3.56%, 95.10% and 88.31% year-on-year, respectively; passenger traffic volume (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) decreased by 46.64% year-on-year, among which, and the
passenger traffic volume of its domestic, international and regional routes decreased by
17.67%, 97.62% and 92.75% year-on-year, respectively; and passenger load factor decreased
by 11.92 percentage points year-on-year to 68.23%, among which, the passenger load factor
of its domestic, international and regional routes decreased by 11.85, 40.52 and 28.64
percentage points year-on-year, respectively.
In relation to freight transportation, the freight transportation business of the
company only consists of freight transportation operated through passenger aircraft, and
such business is under contractual operation by a subsidiary of the controlling
shareholder of the company. In December 2020, freight load volume decreased by 3.17%
year-on-year. (RC)