Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 6.0 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in September, about double the number of passengers carried in September 2021 and 86.6% of the September 2019 level, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 83.4% in September, essentially the same as the 83.6% recorded pre-pandemic in September 2019.
The $2.1 billion operating revenue earned in September was 96.3% of that earned before the pandemic in September 2019.
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