Air China Feb traffic up 7%

Air China announced that it carried 7.27 million passengers in February 2015, an increase of 7.3% compared to the year-ago period. Domestic traffic rose 3.8% to 6 million passengers, with international traffic up 34.7% to 852,000. Regional traffic rose by 15% to 414,000. Passenger load factor declined 2.3% points to 82.5%. Cargo volume rose 12.7% to 103,547 tonnes; freight load factor was up 3.2 percentage points to 47.9%.