Cathay Pacific Airways (HKG:0293) carried about 2.5 million passengers in July, up 24% from a year earlier, according to a Friday Hong Kong bourse filing.

Passenger capacity rose 29.6% year on year to 12.26 billion available seat kilometers.

Cargo carried increased 10.5% to 140.2 million kilograms, while cargo capacity grew 11.2% to 1.29 billion available freight-ton kilometers.

Subsidiary HK Express carried 685,784 passengers in the month, up 22% from the year-ago period.