China Eastern Airlines posted an 18% rise in passenger traffic in July but international passenger traffic is still down year-on-year.
Total RPKs in July were up 18% year-on-year thanks to a 29% increase in domestic RPKs, says China Eastern.
This offset a 2% and 19% fall in international and regional traffic respectively, it says. Regional is Hong Kong and Macau traffic.
In real terms, total passenger numbers rose 23% to 4.04 million with domestic up 30% to 3.53 million while international passenger numbers fell 6% to 345,000 and regional fell 15% to 166,000.
The passenger load factor dropped overall by 0.8 percentage points to 72.3% and domestic fell 1.4 percentage points to 74.7%, international fell 0.3 percentage points to 65.9% and regional fell 6.5 percentage points to 66.4%.
Its cargo business, meanwhile, experienced a 6% decline in revenue freight tonne kilometres (RFTKs).
The break-down shows domestic RFTKs rose 6% but international and regional fell 8% and 30% respectively.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
