SIA, Scoot flew about 35,000 fewer passengers in August compared to July
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NATIONAL carrier and its budget arm Scoot flew 34,900 fewer passengers in August compared to July, and their load factors also slipped marginally. The carrier group transported just under three million passengers last month, it announced in its August operating statistics to the Singapore Exchange on Friday (Sep 15). In contrast, both SIA and Scoot flew slightly more than three million passengers in July. The group passenger load factor hit 88.2 per cent in August, with the full-service carrier and its budget arm posting 87 per cent and 92.1 per cent respectively for the metric that measures the percentage of available seating capacity filled by paying passengers. Passenger capacity of both carriers last month was 0.3 per cent lower than July’s. In comparison, the passenger load factor on