Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 6.7 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in July, surpassing 6 million for the second time since February 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was more than three times the number of passengers carried in the same month of 2021 and over four-fifths (83.8%) of the July 2019 pre-pandemic level.
With traffic at 18.7 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 21.5 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 86.9% in July, virtually the same as its 2019 pre-pandemic level for the first time in the recovery.
The $2.4 billion operating revenue earned in July was 96.6% of that earned in July 2019.
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