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Cebu Pacific flew 18.9% more passengers in March to 2.2 million compared to same month last year
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Seat load factor is slightly down to 81.4% from 81.6% last year while seat capacity grew by 19.2%
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For the first quarter of the year, the budget airline handled 7 million passengers, up 26.3% from 5.5 million year-on-year
Cebu Pacific flew 18.9% more passengers in March to 2.2 million compared to the 1.858 million passengers recorded in the same month last year.
Seat load factor (SLF) is slightly down to 81.4% from 81.6% last year while seat capacity grew by 19.2%, the low-cost carrier said in a statement.
Domestic passenger traffic jumped 20.2% to 1.658 million on 17.9% more seats.
For international traffic, seats were 22.9% higher resulting in passenger traffic growing by 15.2%.
For the first quarter of the year, Cebu Pacific flew 7 million passengers, a 26.3% improvement from 5.5 million in the same quarter in 2024.
The number of domestic passengers rose 27.9% to 5.2 million while international passenger traffic advanced 21.8% to 1.8 million. Overall capacity in seats grew 24.8% to 8.2 million.
“Despite the shift of Easter from March of last year into April of this year, the traffic growth and seat load factors remained robust for both domestic and international networks,” Cebu Pacific president and chief commercial officer Xander Lao said.
“For the first quarter, overall, we have registered increases in load factor while growing capacity at circa 25 percent. This reinforces our positive outlook for the second quarter of this year,” Lao added.
Cebu Pacific currently offers the widest network coverage in the Philippines with 37 domestic and 26 international destinations. It operates one of the youngest fleets in the world, with 99 aircraft.
On March 28, the carrier took delivery of its first aircraft for the year — an A330neo — the first of four A330neos expected to join its fleet this year and part of the seven total aircraft expected to be delivered in 2025.
