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Friday, December 30, 2011

Slight drop in passenger numbers at Singapore Airlines

SINGAPORE-Singapore Airlines has recorded a 2.6 per cent year-on-year decline in passenger carriage measured in revenue passenger kilometres during November.

The number of passengers carried also decreased 2.7 per cent over the same month last year to 1.39 million.

Capacity measured in available seat kilometres, however, grew by 2.2 per cent.

As a result, passenger load factor (PLF) declined by 3.7 percentage points to 75.2 per cent.

All regions registered lower PLFs over the same month last year.

Despite growth in passenger carriage, load factor for the Americas region declined as the increase in traffic still lagged behind the rate of capacity expansion.

The flood situation in Thailand also affected demand, particularly on the Bangkok routes in the East Asia region.

Europe’s PLF was lower as the ongoing economic uncertainties over the eurozone impacted travel demand.

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