Shanghai Commercial Bank - ET Net Real Time News
16/01/2018 09:20
China East Air (00670) passengers carried up 8.9% in 2017
 
[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)