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China Southern Airlines reports 3.8% growth in passengers for July
August 17th 2026
China Southern Airlines (CSA) flew 16.7 million passengers on its domestic, international and regional flights in July, up from 16.1 million in the same month a year ago. Read More » The increase was led by CSA’s international flying, which achieved 7.9% growth to 2 million passengers in the month. The domestic operations had 3.4% more passengers at 14.6 million. However, CSA’s regional unit carried 0.2% fewer passengers year-on-year at 164,030. Passenger load factor rose 0.8 percentage points to 85.2% as capacity grew 4.2% and demand, or revenue passenger kilometres, climbed 5.3%. During July, CSA inducted eight passenger aircraft while withdrawing seven from the lift, lifting its fleet by one to 974 by the end of the month, compared with June 30.
