SINGAPORE (Yosefardi) – For the month of May 2015, Tigerair’s operations in Singapore recorded a 8.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in traffic to 804.5 million revenue passenger-kilometres (RPK), while capacity decreased by 6.7% to 969 million available seat-kilometres (ASK).

Consequently, y-o-y passenger load factor decreased by 1.8 percentage point to 83%. The number of passengers carried fell by 8.7% y-o-y to about 432,000.

For the 12 months to May 2015, traffic decreased by 0.1% y-o-y to 9.6 billion RPK, while capacity decreased by 4.3% to 11.7 billion ASK.

Consequently, passenger load factor was 3.5 percentage points higher at 81.9%. The number of passengers carried declined by 2.9% to 5.1 million