More October passengers for SIA Group, but cargo falls

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Singapore Airlines Group carriers report passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger-kilometres) grew 8.7 per cent in October 2019 compared to last year, outpacing capacity (measured in available seat-kilometres) growth of 5.5 per cent. 
Passenger load factor (PLF) rose by 2.5 percentage points to 84.4 per cent.
Singapore Airlines' PLF improved by 1.7 percentage points year-on-year to 84.4 per cent. 
 
Passenger carriage increased 10.3 per cent compared to last year, against capacity injection of eight per cent. 
 
PLF improved for all route regions except for the Americas,  where PLF was flat against last year. Improvement in loads was partly due to the shift in Deepavali holidays from November 2018 to October 2019.
 
Efforts continue to focus on RASK (revenue per available seat- kilometres).
SilkAir recorded a 4.8 percentage point increase in PLF to 79.7 per cent as system-wide passenger carriage grew by four per cent against a 2.2 per cent contraction in capacity. The strong growth in passenger carriage led to increases in PLF for East Asia and Pacific, as well as West Asia.
 
Scoot's PLF improved 4.3 percentage points to 85.6 per cent, as passenger carriage increased by 4.4 per cent against a marginal decline in capacity of 0.8 per cent. 
 
PLF improved for East Asia as Chinese routes benefitted from the China Golden Week, while the suspension of underperforming routes led to the improvement of PLF in West Asia. Rest of World also registered higher PLF as demand for long-haul routes to Europe improved. During the month, Scoot launched new routes to Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam that were previously served by SilkAir. 
 
Scoot ceased services to Kochi, with the route being transferred to SilkAir. Services to Male were also suspended.
 
Cargo load factor (CLF) remained a weak spot and was 6.2 percentage points lower, as the 10.3 per cent decline in cargo traffic (measured in freight tonne-kilometres) outpaced the capacity contraction of 1.4 per cent. 
All route regions registered declines in CLF.

More October passengers for SIA Group, but cargo falls

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Singapore Airlines Group carriers report passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger-kilometres) grew 8.7 per cent in October 2019 compared to last year, outpacing capacity (measured in available seat-kilometres) growth of 5.5 per cent. 
Passenger load factor (PLF) rose by 2.5 percentage points to 84.4 per cent.
Singapore Airlines' PLF improved by 1.7 percentage points year-on-year to 84.4 per cent. 
 
Passenger carriage increased 10.3 per cent compared to last year, against capacity injection of eight per cent. 
 
PLF improved for all route regions except for the Americas,  where PLF was flat against last year. Improvement in loads was partly due to the shift in Deepavali holidays from November 2018 to October 2019.
 
Efforts continue to focus on RASK (revenue per available seat- kilometres).
SilkAir recorded a 4.8 percentage point increase in PLF to 79.7 per cent as system-wide passenger carriage grew by four per cent against a 2.2 per cent contraction in capacity. The strong growth in passenger carriage led to increases in PLF for East Asia and Pacific, as well as West Asia.
 
Scoot's PLF improved 4.3 percentage points to 85.6 per cent, as passenger carriage increased by 4.4 per cent against a marginal decline in capacity of 0.8 per cent. 
 
PLF improved for East Asia as Chinese routes benefitted from the China Golden Week, while the suspension of underperforming routes led to the improvement of PLF in West Asia. Rest of World also registered higher PLF as demand for long-haul routes to Europe improved. During the month, Scoot launched new routes to Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam that were previously served by SilkAir. 
 
Scoot ceased services to Kochi, with the route being transferred to SilkAir. Services to Male were also suspended.
 
Cargo load factor (CLF) remained a weak spot and was 6.2 percentage points lower, as the 10.3 per cent decline in cargo traffic (measured in freight tonne-kilometres) outpaced the capacity contraction of 1.4 per cent. 
All route regions registered declines in CLF.