HONG KONG, 20 May 2021: Severe declines in travel demand caused by ongoing Covid-19 restrictions worldwide substantially cut flights and available seat capacity compared with pre-Covid times, Cathay Pacific reported in its latest traffic figures for April. The airline carried 22,404 passengers during April, an increase of 63.2% compared to April 2020, but a 99.3% decrease compared to the pre-pandemic level in April 2019. April’s revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 32.6% year-on-year but were down 99.1% versus April 2019. Passenger load factor increased by 2.5 percentage points to 24.2%, while capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), increased by 18.9% but remained 96.8% down on April 2019 levels. In the first four months of 2021, passengers carried dropped