Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Group has announced its traffic figures for December 2024. The figures show impressive increases in both the number of passengers carried and tonnes of cargo transported in the final month of 2024, completing the carrier’s two-year rebuilding process after its fortunes were decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cathay Pacific carried a total of 2,248,950 passengers in December 2024, an increase of 26.4% compared with December 2023. The month’s revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) increased 27.9% year on year. Passenger load factor increased by 3.6 percentage points to 84.8%, while available seat kilometers (ASKs) increased by 22.5% year on year.

For the full year of 2024, the Cathay Group achieved new post-pandemic highs both for total passengers and cargo carried. Cathay Pacific and its low-cost arm HK Express carried a combined total of more than 28 million passengers in 2024, marking a year-on-year increase of 30.7%.

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