PIA breaches 19-yr-old record of seat utilisation

[Naveed Yaseen]

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has achieved a record seat utilisation of 74.5 percent on its scheduled services in October this year, which is the record high passengers occupancy of airlines in this month during the last 19 years.

The international scheduled seat utilisation was recorded at 74.9 percent while the domestic scheduled seat utilisation stands at 72.1 percent in this season. The system seat utilisation, inclusive of non-scheduled operation was 73.2 percent, which is also the highest ever achieved during the month of October since last 19 years.

This exceptional performance, besides being the result of better reservation and revenue management discipline, was primarily due to better sales efforts by the airline all over its network. During October 2008, PIA achieved a 26.1 percent increase in RPKs (traffic) over October 2007 on international routes. Similarly on domestic routes the increase in RPKs (traffic) was 16.9 percent over the same month last year. Thus, system traffic growth achieved by PIA was 24.8 percent in October 2008 over the same month, last year. staff report

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