SilkAir's East Asia, Pacific routes load factor down 1.5 points

This is despite SilkAir's 24% increase in passenger carriage.

In a release, SilkAir’s systemwide passenger carriage increased 24.0% year-on-year against 24.5% growth in capacity. As a result, PLF was 0.3 of a percentage point lower at 75.0%. PLF on East Asia and Pacific routes declined by 1.5 percentage points as the growth in traffic lagged that of capacity increases. In the past year, SilkAir has launched scheduled services to 6 new destinations in East Asia and Pacific.

Overall cargo traffic (measured in freight-tonne-kilometres) was 3.0% lower year-on-year, while cargo capacity decreased by 0.1%. Consequently, cargo load factor (CLF) in July 2012 fell by 2.0 percentage points. CLF decreased year-on-year for all regions, except for South West Pacific and West Asia & Africa. Cargo load factor for the East Asia region declined by 8.1 percentage points as traffic demand was weak and did not match capacity.