Cathay Pacific, Dragonair passenger traffic surged 10.5% to 2.34m

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In a release, Cathay Pacific Airways today released combined Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for February 2013 that show a sharp increase in the number of passengers carried compared to the same month in 2012, alongside a significant year-on-year decrease in cargo and mail tonnage. 

The large year-on-year variations were mainly due to the shift of Chinese New Year from January in 2012 to February this year. Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a total of 2,340,029 passengers in February –an increase of 10.5% compared to the same month last year.

The passenger load factor climbed by 6.3 percentage points to 80.8%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), dropped by 6.1%.

The two airlines carried 103,752 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, a drop of  12.0% compared to February 2012. The cargo and mail load factor fell by 4.7 percentage points to 61.1%. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, declined by 8.3%, while cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres were down by 14.9%.