Major Canadian airlines carried 3.2 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in November, surpassing the 3-million mark for the second consecutive month. While this was well above the number of passengers carried in November 2020, it was about half (51.5%) of the pre-pandemic level reported in November 2019.
With traffic at 7.2 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 10.5 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 68.5%.
Although the $1.0 billion operating revenue earned in November 2021 was the highest since March 2020, it was 58.1% of the operating revenue earned before the pandemic in November 2019.
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