Cathay Pacific Group today has released its traffic figures in June 2019.
Under the group banner, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of 3.1 million passengers, an increase of 6% compared to the same period last month.
The passenger load factor increased 1.4 percentage points to 86.7%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), increased by 7.3%.
In the first six months of 2019, the number of passengers carried grew by 4.4% while capacity increased by 6.7%.
The two airlines carried 163,977 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, a drop of 9.1% compared to the same month last year.
The cargo and mail load factor fell by 7.8 percentage points to 62.8%. Capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs), was up by 1.5% while cargo and mail revenue freight tonne-kilometres (RFTKs) dropped by 9.7%.
In the first six months of 2019, the tonnage fell by 5.7% against a 1.1% increase in capacity and a 6.1% decrease in RFTKs.