Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair saw a glimmer of hope in April’s figures with a 2.1 per cent rise in cargo and mail volumes to 147,643 tonnes of cargo and mail in April, year-on-year. The cargo and mail load factor rose by 0.9 percentage points to 63.5 per cent while capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, fell by 0.8 per cent and cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres (RTKs) rose by 0.6 per cent. In the first four months of 2016, the tonnage carried fell by 1.8 … [Read more...] about India helps Cathay’s April figures stay afloat

Cathay Pacific Airways today released combined Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for March 2016 that show a marginal decrease in the volume of cargo and mail uplifted. The two airlines carried 157,006 tonnes of cargo and mail in March, a drop of 0.4 per cent compared to the same month last year. The cargo and mail load factor fell by 5.4 percentage points to 63 per cent. Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, increased by 4.1 per cent while cargo and mail … [Read more...] about March cargo down marginally for Cathay, but improvement over Feb