Cathay duo top 11m passengers in five months 

BTN News
Friday, 21 June 2024

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific has released its traffic figures for May 2024.
In the first five months of the year, Cathay Pacific and HK Express together surpassed the 10 million mark for passengers carried, with a combined 11.2 million passengers during the period.


Cathay Pacific carried a total of 1,678,532 passengers in May 2024, an increase of 18.4 per cent compared with May 2023. The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) increased 20.8 per cent year on year. Passenger load factor decreased by 4.8 percentage points to 80.3 per cent, while available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 28 per cent year on year. 

In the first five months of 2024, the number of passengers carried increased by 40.7 per cent to a total of 8,821,895, against a 45.7 per cent increase in ASKs and a 37.5 per cent increase in RPKs, as compared with the same period for 2023.

Lavinia Lau, chief customer and commercial officer Cathay Pacific 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. Without any long-weekend holidays in Hong Kong, we experienced a four per cent decrease in passenger numbers compared with April, when multiple holidays drove strong leisure demand. However, compared with the same month last year, passenger numbers were 18 per cent higher.

“Although leisure traffic from Hong Kong declined, 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 per cent load factors on our United States and Canada routes. Business travel demand continued to be solid, with strong sales in Hong Kong supporting traffic on a number of our Chinese mainland, North America and United Kingdom routes."

Cathay duo top 11m passengers in five months 

BTN News
Friday, 21 June 2024

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific has released its traffic figures for May 2024.
In the first five months of the year, Cathay Pacific and HK Express together surpassed the 10 million mark for passengers carried, with a combined 11.2 million passengers during the period.


Cathay Pacific carried a total of 1,678,532 passengers in May 2024, an increase of 18.4 per cent compared with May 2023. The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) increased 20.8 per cent year on year. Passenger load factor decreased by 4.8 percentage points to 80.3 per cent, while available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 28 per cent year on year. 

In the first five months of 2024, the number of passengers carried increased by 40.7 per cent to a total of 8,821,895, against a 45.7 per cent increase in ASKs and a 37.5 per cent increase in RPKs, as compared with the same period for 2023.

Lavinia Lau, chief customer and commercial officer Cathay Pacific 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. Without any long-weekend holidays in Hong Kong, we experienced a four per cent decrease in passenger numbers compared with April, when multiple holidays drove strong leisure demand. However, compared with the same month last year, passenger numbers were 18 per cent higher.

“Although leisure traffic from Hong Kong declined, 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 per cent load factors on our United States and Canada routes. Business travel demand continued to be solid, with strong sales in Hong Kong supporting traffic on a number of our Chinese mainland, North America and United Kingdom routes."