[ET Net News Agency, 16 November 2021] China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
(00670) said in October 2021, the company's passenger transportation capacity (measured by
available seat-kilometres) decreased by 9.02% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
transportation capacity of its domestic and international routes decreased by 8.62% and
27.89% year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger transportation capacity of its
regional routes increased by 6.16% year-on-year; passenger traffic volume (measured by
revenue passenger-kilometres) decreased by 22.47% year-on-year, among which, the passenger
traffic volume of its domestic and international routes decreased by 22.69% and 13.54%
year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger traffic volume of its regional routes
increased by 30.14% year-on-year; and passenger load factor decreased by 11.23 percentage
points year-on-year to 64.72%, among which, the passenger load factor of its domestic
routes decreased by 11.82 percentage points year-on-year, while the passenger load factor
of its international and regional routes increased by 9.08 and 8.76 percentage points
year-on-year, respectively.
In relation to freight transportation, the freight transportation business of the
company includes passenger aircraft cargo business under conventional circumstances
(mainly passenger aircraft bellyhold space business) and passenger aircraft cargo business
under unconventional circumstances (mainly "Passenger-to-Cargo Conversion" business), and
such business is under exclusive operation by China Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. In October
2021, freight traffic volume increased by 19.86% year-on-year. (RC)