Highlights
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, passenger numbers, traffic and capacity all reached their highest levels since March 2020.
Major Canadian airlines carried 4.2 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in March 2022, surpassing four million for the first time in two years. While this was more than eight times the number of passengers carried in March 2021, it was 55.2% of the level reported in March 2019, prior to the pandemic.
With traffic at 10.4 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 13.6 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 76.6% in March.
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