Cathay Pacific tops 10 million passengers carried for the year

Friday, 20 Jun, 2024 0

Cathay Pacific and subsidiary HK Express have surpassed 10 million passengers carried for the year so far.

It comes as the airline group released its passenger traffic data for May 2024.

Cathay passenger traffic for the year to end-May 2024 is at 11.2 million.

Cathay Pacific carried 1.6 million passengers in May 2024, which is an increase of 18.4% compared with May 2023.

The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) increased 20.8% year on year while passenger load factor declined by 4.8 percentage points to 80.3% on increased seat capacity.

In the first five months of 2024, the number of passengers carried increased by 40.7% compared with the same period for 2023.

Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Lavinia Lau said: “May was, as expected, a slightly quieter period for our travel business compared with previous months as demand slowed down, particularly on our regional routes.”

Due to no long-weekend holidays in Hong Kong, there was a 4% decrease in passenger traffic numbers compared with April, Lau said.

“We saw increased demand from various countries in Southeast Asia due to the school holidays there.”

“Additionally, our long-haul services were boosted by the return of student traffic to Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland from North America, resulting in 90% load factors on our United States and Canada routes.”

So far this year, Cathay Pacific has added flights to Chennai, Colombo and, as of this week, Barcelona to the global network.

HK Express has added Beijing, Bangkok, Sanya and Clark in the Philippines.

The two airlines now fly to more than 80 global destinations.

Learn more about : Cathay Pacific ( Asia Pecific )

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