Thai Airways pax up 5% with 78% load factor in Dec-2016, 18.2m pax in 2016

Thai Airways reported (Feb-2017) the following traffic highlights:

• Dec-2016:
• • Passenger numbers: 1.7 million, +4.5% year-on-year;
  • Passenger traffic (RPKs): +7.9%;
  • • Domestic: -2.4%;
    • Regional: +7.1%;
    • Australia: +8.6%;
    • Europe: +10.0%;
  • Passenger load factor: 78.2%, +3.4 ppts;
  • • Domestic: 77.1%, +4.6 ppts;
    • Regional: 77.1%, +1.8 ppts;
    • Australia: 84.5%, -0.2 ppt;
    • Europe: 77.7%, +6.6 ppts;
  • Cargo volume: 55,545 tons, +19.2%;
  • Cargo load factor: 63.9%, +11.5 ppts;
• 2016:
• • Passenger numbers: 18.2 million, -1.4% year-on-year;
  • Passenger traffic (RPKs): +1.1%;
  • • Domestic: -4.1%;
    • Regional: -0.7%;
    • Australia: +8.0%;
    • Europe: +7.3%;
  • Passenger load factor: 73.3%, +0.7 ppt;
  • • Domestic: 74.6%, -1.8 ppts;
    • Regional: 74.7%, -3.3 ppts;
    • Australia: 72.5%, +3.9 ppts;
    • Europe: 71.6%, +5.3 ppts;
  • Cargo volume: 545,615 tons, +5.5%;
  • Cargo load factor: 59.8%, +0.2 ppt. [more - original PR]