The airline carried 143,564 tonnes of cargo in the same month
Cathay Pacific released its traffic figures for December 2024. In the full year of 2024, the Cathay Group achieved new post-pandemic highs for total passengers and cargo carried. Cathay Pacific and HK Express carried a combined total of more than 28 million passengers, marking an increase of 30.7% year on year.
Meanwhile, Cathay Cargo carried a total of 1.5mn tonnes of cargo in 2024, which was 11% higher than the whole of 2023.
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 kilometres (RPKs) increased 27.9% year on year. Passenger load factor increased by 3.6 percentage points to 84.8%, while available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 22.5% year on year.
The airline carried 143,564 tonnes of cargo in December 2024, an increase of 11.7% compared with December 2023.
Travel
Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Lavinia Lau said: “In 2024, we achieved a significant milestone during the year-end travel peak with Cathay Pacific and HK Express together carrying more than 100,000 passengers in a single day — the most since the start of our rebuild — on a total of eight days,” commented Lavinia Lau, Chief Customer and Commercial Officer, Cathay Pacific.
Cargo
For cargo, the healthy market momentum seen in previous months continued into December, resulting in the highest tonnage of any month in 2024.
Demand for e-commerce shipments from Hong Kong and the rest of the Greater Bay Area remained robust during the year-end festive season, a press release concluded.
