Thursday, June 20, 2024 Cathay Pacific released its traffic figures for May 2024 today. 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 total of 11.2 million passengers during this period.
In May 2024, Cathay Pacific carried 1,678,532 passengers, an 18.4% increase compared to May 2023. The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose by 20.
8% year on year. However, the passenger load factor dropped by 4.8 percentage points to 80.
3%, while available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 28% year on year. For the first five months of 2024, passenger numbers grew by 40.7% to 8,821,895, with ASKs up by 45.
7% and RPKs up by 37.5% compared to the same period in 2023. The airline also carried 121,088 tonnes of cargo in May 2024, marking a 10.
2% increase from May 2023. The month’s cargo revenue tonne kilometres (RFTKs) rose by 3.8% year on year, while the cargo load factor decreased by 2.
1 percentage points to 59.4%. Available cargo tonne kilometres (AFTKs) grew by 7.
5% year on year. In the first five months of 2024, cargo tonnage increased by 10.2% to 594,896 tonnes, with an 11.
8% rise in AFTKs and a 4.4% increase in RFTKs compared to the same period in 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.
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