Sydney Airport posts high October traffic

    Sydney Airport posts high October traffic

    Sydney Airport reported a strong October performance with passenger traffic growing 5.1% compared to last year, driven by a 2.6% improvement in load factors and a 1.5% growth in seat capacity.

    Managing director and CEO Kerrie Mather said foreign nationality demand contributed to the international passenger growth, with Chinese, Hong Kong, Philippine, Indian and Korean nationalities performing well.

    Chinese growth was significantly higher than its four year average growth rate of 16.4% due to strong golden week demand which runs annually in the first week in October.

    Australian outbound also grew strongly as a result of increased demand over the school holiday period.

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