Air China (00753) Jul passenger capacity up 5.6%

   Air China Limited (00753) said in July 2019, the group maintained growth in combined passenger traffic (measured by revenue passenger kilometres (the RPK)) as compared to the same period last year and to the same period last month.
  Passenger capacity (measured by available seat kilometres (the ASK)) and passenger traffic recorded a year-on-year increase of 5.6% and 6.4% respectively. For domestic routes, passenger capacity and passenger traffic increased by 7.4% and 8.1% respectively, as compared to the same period last year. For international routes, passenger capacity and passenger traffic increased by 2.1% and 3.2% respectively, as compared to the same period last year.
  Passenger capacity on regional routes increased by 16.1%, and passenger traffic recorded an increase of 12.9%, as compared to the same period last year. The overall passenger load factor was 81.1%, representing an increase of 0.6 percentage point as compared to the same period last year. The passenger load factor for domestic routes and international routes increased by 0.5 percentage point and 0.9 percentage point respectively, as compared to the same period last year, and the passenger load factor for regional routes decreased by 2.3 percentage points year-on-year.
  In terms of cargo operations, in July 2019, cargo capacity (measured by available freight tonne kilometres (the AFTK)) increased by 3.0% year-on-year. Cargo and mail traffic (measured by revenue freight tonne kilometres (the RFTK)) decreased by 4.0%, the volume of cargo and mail carried increased by 0.6% as compared to the same period last year. The cargo load factor was 47.8%, representing a year-on-year decrease of 3.5 percentage points.