Singapore Airlines group is fast approaching pre-pandemic levels, the group comprising Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Scoot carried 2.72 million passengers at a load factor of 89%, as per the latest March 2023 figures released by the Group. In March 2019, prior to pandemic, the group carried 3.11 million passengers and a passenger load factor of 81.5%. The seat capacity in March 2022 was 12.5 million seat kilometres, 85% of March 2019 capacity.
The airline carried 893,000 passengers in March 2022 at a load factor of 34.5%, in just one year the airline has made a massive comeback with 2.72 million passengers at 89% load factor. On a month-on-month basis, the group added an extra 335,000 passengers in March compared to February 2022, a gain of 14%.
Scoot carried 947,600 passengers in March 2023 achieving a record passenger load factor of 93%. as compared to 128,300 in March 2022.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) carried 1.77 million passengers last month compared to 764,700 in March 2022, adding more than one million passengers since last year.
In 2019, SIA carried 1.79 million while Silk Air carried another 403,000, bringing the combined total to 2.19 million. With this total, SIA is now back to 80% of the passengers it carried in March 2019. SIA's load factor was 88% this year, 60% last year and 81% in 2019.
At the end of March 2023, the Group's passenger network covered 109 destinations in 36 countries and territories, with SIA serving 74 and Scoot serving 58.