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Cathay passenger, cargo figures slide due to swine flu
Hong Kong (AFP) July 13, 2009 Cathay Pacific suffered a 18.1 percent year-on-year drop passenger numbers in June, the company said Monday, as the swine flu outbreak has severely dampened appetite for travelling. Combined passenger figures for the Hong Kong carrier and its affiliate Dragonair fell to 1.74 million last month, compared with June last year, the airline said in a statement. For the year to date, the number of passengers carried has fallen 4.2 percent. The drop in cargo traffic last month was the sharpest this year, the statement said. The two airlines carried a total of 124,000 tonnes of cargo and mail in June, down 10 percent from the same month last year. Tonnage has fallen 15.4 percent for the year to date. Tom Owen, Cathay's general manager for revenue management, said the figures in June were depressed by the ongoing economic downturn and the reluctance of passengers to fly because of the swine flu outbreak. "The H1N1 situation had a particularly severe impact in our largest market, Hong Kong, and within the region, especially on Japanese routes," he said in the statement. "Aggressive competition for Economy Class passengers in all markets continued to provide very few opportunities for sustainable yield improvement," he added. More than 1,200 cases of swine flu were reported in Hong Kong, while Japan's tally of cases topped 2,000 last week. But no death has been reported in either. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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