SIA Group’s passenger traffic up 5.4% in August

Passenger traffic is at 13.6 billion for the month, compared with 12.9 billion in the corresponding period last year

Passenger traffic for the two carriers under the Singapore Airlines Group was 5.4 per cent higher in August 2025, compared with the previous year, indicated its latest operating update released on Monday (Sep 15).

The increase in passenger traffic for SIA and Scoot outpaced the 2.7 per cent expansion in passenger capacity.

Passenger traffic – which measures the demand for an airline’s service and is derived by multiplying the number of paying passengers by the distance they have travelled – came in at 13.6 billion for the month, compared with 12.9 billion in the corresponding period last year.

As a result, the group’s passenger load factor rose to 88 per cent, up 2.3 percentage points from the prior year. SIA posted a monthly passenger load factor of 86.9 per cent, and Scoot recorded 91.9 per cent for the same period.

The two airlines carried a combined total of 3.6 million passengers, 9.4 per cent higher than last year.

Scoot carried a total of 1.3 million passengers, up 14.2 per cent from the year before, and SIA carried 2.3 million passengers, an increase of 6.9 per cent over the same period.

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As for its cargo business, loads rose by 0.5 per cent, below the 2.3 per cent expansion in cargo capacity.

As a result, the cargo load factor declined by 0.9 percentage point to 55.2 per cent. This comes as front-loading demand eased in August.

Shares of SIA slid 0.5 per cent or S$0.03 to close at S$6.51 on Monday.