Asia-Pac passenger traffic leaps 10% in May

Singapore

OVERALL passenger traffic in the Asia-Pacific rose a healthy 10 per cent year on year in May, outstripping the global pace of growth.

And load factor went up to 77 per cent despite a 7.5 per cent increase in capacity (measured in available seat kilometres) for the region's airlines.

The latest passenger traffic monitor by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) reported that global air travel (measured in revenue-passenger-kilometres) picked up fr…