[ET Net News Agency, 16 January 2018] China Eastern Airlines (00670) said it carried a |
total of about 9.21 million in December, an increase of 11.1% from a year earlier. |
For the year 2017, the total number of passengers carried rose 8.9% year-on-year to |
about 111 million. |
Passenger transportation capacity (measured by available seat-kilometres) in December |
grew 8.7% year-on-year, passenger traffic volume (measured by revenue |
passenger-kilometres) increased by 9.5% year-on-year, and passenger load factor increased |
by 0.57 percentage points to 79.43% year-on-year. |
Freight transportation capacity (measured by available freight tonne-kilometres) in |
December picked up 16% year-on-year. Freight traffic volume (measured by revenue freight |
tonne-kilometres) increased by 7.1% year-on-year, while freight load factor decreased by |
3.01 percentage points to 36.46% year-on-year. (HL) |
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