Cebu Pacific carries 17.5 M passengers in 11 months

The number of passengers carried by Cebu Pacific and subsidiary Cebgo rose five percent in the first 11 months of last year.

Latest operating statistics data available showed the group served 17.48 million passengers in the 11-month period last year, up from the 16.68 million passengers carried in the same period in 2015.

The group’s capacity was unchanged at 20.32 million as of end-November, while seat load factor climbed 3.9 percentage points to 86 percent last year from 82.1 percent in 2015.

Despite the higher passenger volume for the January to November period, the group’s total number of flights declined slightly to 120,617 in the 11-month period from the previous year’s 121,009.

For the month of November, the Cebu Pacific group had a total of 1.48 million passengers last year, an uptick of 1.2 percent from the 1.46 million passengers in 2015.

Cebu Pacific group’s capacity declined to 1.70 million in November last year from 1.71 million a year earlier, while seat load factor went up to 87.1 percent last year from 85.7 percent in 2015.