Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 6.8 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in August. This was more than double the number of passengers carried in August 2021 and over four-fifths (82.8%) of the August 2019 level, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
With traffic at 18.9 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 21.9 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 86.5% in August.
The $2.4 billion operating revenue earned in August was 90.0% of that earned before the pandemic in August 2019.
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