Monthly civil aviation statistics, January 2018
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Released: 2018-03-28
The six Canadian Level I air carriers flew 6.6 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in January, up 5.6% from January 2017 and continuing the upward year-over-year monthly trend that began in April 2014.
Traffic increased 7.9% year over year to 17.4 billion passenger-kilometres in January. Capacity rose 7.2% to 21.2 billion available seat-kilometres. This resulted in a slightly higher passenger load factor in January (81.9%) compared with the same month a year earlier (81.3%), as the increase in demand for travel was stronger than the rise in capacity.
On average, each passenger travelled 2,636 kilometres, up 2.2% compared with January 2017.
The volume of turbo fuel consumed rose 6.4% to 640.0 million litres, while the number of flying hours increased 5.2% to 189,000.
Total operating revenue increased 9.2% from the same month a year earlier to $1.8 billion in January.
Note to readers
The Monthly Civil Aviation Survey covers all Canadian Level I air carriers: Air Canada (including Air Canada rouge), Air Transat, Jazz, Porter, Sunwing and WestJet.
Data in this monthly release are not seasonally adjusted.
Data for October to December 2017 have been revised.
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