SINGAPORE (Oct 15): Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) reported a 1.2 percentage point increase in passenger load factor (PLF) to 84.8% on the back of improved PLF figures across all its airlines.

In a bourse filing on its September operating results, SIA said that overall airlines’ passenger carriage grew 8.7% y-o-y, outpacing capacity growth of 7.1%.

Notably, regional carrier SilkAir recorded an increase of 3.7 percentage points in PLF to 77.3% as the system-wide passenger carriage grew by 7.2% against a 2.1% increase in capacity. The strong growth in passenger carriage for all regions led to increases in PLF for East Asia and Pacific, as well as West Asia.

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