Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 2.6 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in January. This was more than triple the number of passengers carried in January 2021, although just over one-third (37.9%) of the level reported in January 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With traffic at 6.6 billion passenger-kilometres and capacity at 12.0 billion available seat-kilometres, the passenger load factor (the ratio of passenger-kilometres to available seat-kilometres) was 55.6% in January 2022.
While up year over year, the $948.0 million operating revenue earned was less than half (48.0%) of that earned before the pandemic in January 2019.
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