Thai Airways pax down 1% with 71% load factor in Oct-2016, cargo up 13%

Thai Airways reported (15-Nov-2016) the following traffic highlights in Oct-2016:

• Passenger numbers: 1.4 million, -1.4% year-on-year;
• Passenger traffic (RPKs): +3.7%;
• • Domestic: -5.1%;
  • Regional: +0.2%;
  • Australia: +7.4%;
  • Europe: +14.2%;
• Passenger load factor: 71.0%, +0.3 ppt;
• • Domestic: 66.4%, -3.9 ppts;
  • Regional: 66.6%, -3.5 ppts;
  • Australia: 75.4%, +0.7 ppt;
  • Europe: 76.1%, +5.1 ppts;
• Cargo volume: 53,867 tons, +12.8%;
• Cargo load factor: 65.7%, +4.3 ppts. [more - original PR]