SIA Group ferries more than 1.7 million passengers in May

Singapore Airlines Group reported a 17.4% increase in passenger traffic for its two carriers for May from the previous month. In its operating results for May released on Wednesday, SIA said the strong recovery in air travel continued a month after Singapore relaxed border restriction in April. “Apart from North Asia, travel demand recovered rapidly across all route regions,” it added. Singapore Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Scoot carried 1,705,200 passengers in May, compared to 1,452,500 in April. The number of passengers presents a more than 14-fold increase from the same month last year. Group passenger capacity reached 61% of pre-pandemic levels in May, four percentage points higher than the previous month. This is in line with SIA’s earlier expectations that passenger capacity would hit around 61% of pre-pandemic levels around May. The group passenger load factor for May was 78.2%, the highest since the pandemic began. This is a 5.5 percentage point improvement from last month and a 63.9 percentage point rise year-on-year.<br/>