(18 Feb 2022)
Cathay Pacific carried 24,699 passengers in
January 2022, a decrease of 18.8% compared to January 2021, and a
99.2% decrease compared to the pre-pandemic level in January 2019.
The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs)
decreased 23.4% year-on-year, down 99% on January 2019. The
passenger load factor increased by 27.1 percentage points to
40.3%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres
(ASKs), decreased by 74.8% year-on-year, a drop of 97.9% compared
with January 2019 levels.
Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s Chief Customer and Commercial Officer,
said, “We’ve had a very difficult start…