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Cathay Pacific today released its traffic figures for January 2021 that continued to reflect the airline’s substantial capacity reductions in response to significantly reduced demand as well as travel restrictions and quarantine requirements in place in Hong Kong and other markets amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. Cathay Pacific carried a total of 30,410 passengers last month, a decrease of 99% compared to January 2020. The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) fell 98.7% year-on-year. Passenger load factor dropped by 71.4 percentage points to 13.3%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), decreased by 91.8%. Cathay Pacific carried 108,930 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, a decrease of 28.3% compared to January 2020. The month’s revenue freight tonne kilometres (RFTKs) fell 21.7% year-on-year. The cargo and mail load factor increased by 19.3 percentage points to 79.4%, while capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs...

The Cathay Pacific Group today released its combined traffic figures for October 2020 that continued to reflect the airlines’ substantial capacity reductions in response to significantly reduced demand as well as travel restrictions and quarantine requirements in place in Hong Kong and other markets amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon (which ceased operation on 21 October 2020) carried a total of 38,541 passengers last month, a decrease of 98.6% compared to October 2019. The month’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) fell 98% year-on-year. Passenger load factor dropped by 59.3 percentage points to 18.2%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), decreased by 91.6%. In the first 10 months of 2020, the number of passengers carried dropped by 84.6% against a 76.5% decrease in capacity and an 82.6% decrease in RPKs, as compared to the same period for 2019. The two airlines carried 114,346 tonnes of cargo and mail last month...