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Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Cathay Pacific Airways (CX) traffic figures for April 2007 show the combined Cathay Pacific/Dragonair passenger load factor rising above 80 per cent for the first time this year, spurred by the long Ching Ming and Easter holiday in Hong Kong early in the month. Cargo was a different story however, with the cargo load factor slipping almost five percentage points as the downturn in the market continued.

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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Cathay Pacific Airways traffic figures for April 2007 show the combined Cathay Pacific/Dragonair cargo load factor slipped by almost 5 percentage points, as the downturn in the market continued.

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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Singapore Airlines reported a record 18.346 million passengers in financial year 2006-07.  This figure represents a 7.9 per cent increase on the previous year’s number of 16.995 million. Carriage of passengers (measured in revenue passenger kilometres) grew 7.7 per cent, against capacity growth (in available seat kilometres) of 2.8 per cent.  As a result, passenger load factor for the full year rose 3.6 percentage points to 79.2 per cent. 

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Friday, 11 May 2007

The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) member airlines carried a total of 11.9 million international passengers in March 2007, an increase of 4.2 per cent over the corresponding period last year. International passenger traffic in RPK terms grew by 3.8 per cent year-on-year, while the passenger load factor improved by 3.3 percentage points to 77.3 per cent on a slight capacity reduction of 0.5 per cent. International freight traffic declined by 3.8 per cent in Freight Tonne Kilometre (FTK) terms. The cargo load factor fell 3.5 points to 66.0per cent, with capacity up by 1.3 per cent compared to the same month last year.

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