Thursday 18 August 2011

AirAsia passenger traffic increases by 19.3% in July

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group's passenger traffic for July 2011 rose 19.3 per cent to 2.648 million from 2.218 million a year ago, with a major chunk contributed by AirAsia Malaysia.

AirAsia Malaysia carried 1.54 million passengers in July, an increase of 12.1 per cent from 1.37 million passengers it carried in the same month in 2010. Its other units are in Thailand and Indonesia which carried 567,100 and 541,220 passengers respectively for the month of July, the airline said in a statement on Thursday.

It said load factor for the group also rose to 82 per cent from 79 per cent previously. AirAsia Malaysia saw its load factor increase by three percentage points to 81 per cent from 78 per cent.

-thestar online.

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