Air China Limited (601111.SH) announced that in August 2025, the company and its subsidiaries recorded a year-over-year increase in consolidated passenger turnover (measured by revenue passenger kilometers). Passenger capacity input (measured by available seat kilometers) increased 2.3% year-over-year, while passenger turnover rose 3.2% year-over-year.

Breaking down by route type: domestic passenger capacity input decreased 1.2% year-over-year, with passenger turnover remaining flat year-over-year; international passenger capacity input surged 12.6% year-over-year, with passenger turnover climbing 12.9% year-over-year; regional passenger capacity input declined 5.7% year-over-year, with passenger turnover dropping 2.2% year-over-year.

The average load factor reached 83.7%, up 0.8 percentage points year-over-year. By route segment, domestic routes increased 1.1 percentage points year-over-year, international routes rose 0.2 percentage points year-over-year, and regional routes gained 2.9 percentage points year-over-year.

On the cargo front, cargo capacity input (measured by available freight ton kilometers) increased 1.5% year-over-year, while cargo and mail turnover (measured by revenue freight ton kilometers) surged 10.2% year-over-year. The cargo load factor stood at 42.1%, up 3.3 percentage points year-over-year.