Major Canadian airlines carried 6.8 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in December, up 10.7% from the same month in 2022 and 5.8% below the December 2019 level, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
With traffic at 18.1 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 21.8 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 82.8% in December 2023.
Overall, Canadian Level I air carriers transported 79.6 million passengers in 2023, which was 27.0% more passengers than in 2022, but 6.8% less than in 2019.
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