SIA, Scoot carried record number of passengers in December

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its low-cost arm Scoot carried a total of 3.6m passengers in December, a monthly record for the SIA group. This was up 7.1% from 2023, based on the group’s monthly operation update, released after the market closed on Jan 15. In particular, SIA carried 2.4m passengers in December, up 9.6% from 2.2m in the year-ago period. Scoot’s passengers stood at 1.1m, up 2.3%. For the whole of 2024, the group ferried 39m passengers, 12.7% more than the 34.6m in 2023. The two carriers’ passenger traffic, which measures the demand for an airline’s service and is derived by multiplying the number of paying passengers by the distance they travelled, was up 6% in December on the year. Passenger capacity, measured by multiplying the number of seats available on a flight by the distance flown, grew 7.1% in December on the year.<br/>