Cathay still waiting for premium pick-up
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for August 2010 followed the general trend of the year to date by showing increases in the combined number of passengers.
The two airlines carried a total of 2.42m passengers in August – up 9.7 percent on the same month last year.
Passenger load factor was 84.4 percent, a rise of 0.3 percentage points, while capacity for the month, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), was up by 7.1 percent.
For the year to date, the number of passengers carried is up 10.1 percent compared to an ASK rise of 1.9 percent.
Cathay Pacific general manager revenue management Tom Owen said, “Traffic in our economy cabins remained strong throughout August, with very robust demand out of our home market – particularly on long-haul routes and to holiday destinations in Southeast and Northeast Asia.
“The China market again was solid, both on our trunk routes to Beijing and Shanghai as well as to secondary cities, with a good performance in the premium cabins.
“Overall, though, our premium revenue and volumes remained below pre-downturn levels and we wait to see the extent of the pick-up in the traditional peak season for business travel in the last quarter.”
Ian Jarrett
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