MIAMI – Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific (CX) has released traffic data for the month of November 2020, which reflected the COVID-19-driven reduction on travel demand, a company press release stated on December 16.
Cathay Pacific transported a total of 37,815 passengers last month, a decrease of 98.6 percent compared to November 2019, while the revenue passenger kilometers fell 97.9 percent year-on-year.
The load factor fell 61.5 percentage points to 18.5 percent, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometers (ASKs), decreased by 90.9 percent.
Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000 taxing at Toulouse Airport (TLS). Photo: Clement Alloing.
Passenger Traffic Still Not Improving
Cathay Pacific Group Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Ronald Lam stated in the released that “we are still not seeing any meaningful improvement in our passenger business,” adding that, the airline, on average “carried just 1,261 passengers per day and load factor remained low at 18.5 percent – both marginal increases over October.”