Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 3.1 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in October, surpassing the 3-million mark for the second time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this was more than triple the number of passengers carried in October 2020, it was 47.3% of the pre-pandemic level reported in October 2019.
With traffic at 7.0 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 10.4 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 67.4%.
The $917.7 million operating revenue earned in October 2021 was slightly under half (48.2%) of the operating revenue earned before the pandemic in October 2019.
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