Operating Performance
During the year in review, passenger carriage
(in revenue passenger kilometres) for the Parent
Airline Company declined 0.9 per cent on the back
of a 0.4 per cent drop in capacity (in available
seat-kilometres). Consequently, passenger load
factor dipped 0.4 percentage points to 78.5 per
cent. SilkAir registered a passenger load factor
of 70.2 per cent, a 0.6 percentage-point increase
from last year. With efforts to expand the regional
network, passenger carriage rose 6.3 per cent,
outpacing the 5.4 per cent growth in capacity.