SIA Group PLF on the up 

BTN News
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

SIA Group airlines reported  passenger load factor (PLF) in January 2019 improved by two percentage points to 83.1 per cent. 

Passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger kilometres) increased 10.4 per cent compared to last year, outpacing a capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) increase of 7.8 per cent.


Singapore Airlines' PLF improved 2.4 percentage points to 83.5 per cent. Passenger carriage increased 10.8 per cent compared to last year against a 7.6 per cent increase in capacity. PLF improved for all route regions due to returning traffic from year-end holidays and the shift of outbound Lunar New Year traffic from February 2018 to end-January 2019. RASK (revenue per available seat kilometre) continued to be resilient.


SilkAir’s system-wide passenger carriage increased by 6.8 per cent, ahead of capacity growth of 0.3 per cent. Consequently, PLF increased 4.6 percentage points to 75.2 per cent, with improvements across all route regions.


Scoot recorded passenger carriage growth of 10.2 per cent,  trailing growth in capacity of 11 per cent, which led to a 0.6 percentage-point decline in PLF to 84.4 per cent. PLF improved for West Asia and Rest of World, while East Asia recorded declines as traffic did not keep pace with the increases in capacity.

Cargo load factor (CLF) was 3.8 percentage points lower, with cargo traffic (measured in freight tonne kilometres) declining 6.2 per cent while capacity was flat against last year. All route regions registered declines in CLF as demand did not keep pace with capacity changes.

Load factors on the South West Pacific routes which include Australia and NZ were hit particularly hard, down 7.3 points to 54.9 per cent in January 2019  compared to 62.2 per cent for the same period in 2018.

SIA Group PLF on the up 

BTN News
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

SIA Group airlines reported  passenger load factor (PLF) in January 2019 improved by two percentage points to 83.1 per cent. 

Passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger kilometres) increased 10.4 per cent compared to last year, outpacing a capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) increase of 7.8 per cent.


Singapore Airlines' PLF improved 2.4 percentage points to 83.5 per cent. Passenger carriage increased 10.8 per cent compared to last year against a 7.6 per cent increase in capacity. PLF improved for all route regions due to returning traffic from year-end holidays and the shift of outbound Lunar New Year traffic from February 2018 to end-January 2019. RASK (revenue per available seat kilometre) continued to be resilient.


SilkAir’s system-wide passenger carriage increased by 6.8 per cent, ahead of capacity growth of 0.3 per cent. Consequently, PLF increased 4.6 percentage points to 75.2 per cent, with improvements across all route regions.


Scoot recorded passenger carriage growth of 10.2 per cent,  trailing growth in capacity of 11 per cent, which led to a 0.6 percentage-point decline in PLF to 84.4 per cent. PLF improved for West Asia and Rest of World, while East Asia recorded declines as traffic did not keep pace with the increases in capacity.

Cargo load factor (CLF) was 3.8 percentage points lower, with cargo traffic (measured in freight tonne kilometres) declining 6.2 per cent while capacity was flat against last year. All route regions registered declines in CLF as demand did not keep pace with capacity changes.

Load factors on the South West Pacific routes which include Australia and NZ were hit particularly hard, down 7.3 points to 54.9 per cent in January 2019  compared to 62.2 per cent for the same period in 2018.