Cathay passenger, cargo figures drop again in Dec
Cathay Pacific suffered a 0.3 percent year-on-year drop in passengers in December, company figures released Tuesday showed, as the global slowdown piled further pressure on the Hong Kong carrier.
Combined figures for Cathay and Dragonair fell to 2.11 million in the final month of 2008, following a 2.2 percent year-on-year drop in November.
Airlines have been particularly hit by a cut in business and first class travel during the ongoing slowdown.
The two airlines carried a total of 115,232 tonnes of cargo and mail in December, down 23.9 percent compared with December 2007.
For the year as a whole, passenger numbers increased 7.3 percent while cargo and mail fell 1.6 percent.
Cathay Pacific's revenue manager Tom Owen said the apparently reasonable performance in passenger numbers in December had followed aggressive measures to boost ticket sales.
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