KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia’s low-cost airline, Capital A, formerly known as AirAsia, said yesterday that, its passengers soared 97 percent year-on-year, in the second quarter of 2023, due to strong resurgence of travel demand.
The airline said in a statement that, its total passengers carried by Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines divisions of AirAsia, surged to 14.24 million, almost doubling the 7.24 million a year ago.
The group also posted a healthy load factor of 88 percent. Across the group, 16.2 million seats were available, operated by 146 of the 166 activated aircraft.
To date, the consolidated airline has recovered 73 percent and 74 percent of the first half of 2019 capacity and passengers carried, respectively.
The group’s available seat kilometres jumped 132 percent year-on-year to 18.99 billion, while revenue passenger kilometres leapt 146 percent year-on-year, to 16.31 billion.
During the quarter, the largest short-haul airline in the group, AirAsia Malaysia recorded a strong overall load factor of 87 percent with 6.4 million passengers.
AirAsia Thailand, on the other hand, posted a load factor of 89 percent, carrying 4.6 million passengers.
AirAsia Indonesia and AirAsia Philippines also posted robust load factors at 84 percent and 91 percent, with passenger carried of 1.5 million and 1.6 million, respectively.
According to Capital A, throughout the second quarter, the domestic performance was incredibly strong and international market traffic remained buoyant with favourable load factor.
In response to robust international market demand the group reallocated more capacity to international routes, to meet strong resurgence from the international market.– NNN-BERNAMA
