SIA Group passenger traffic falls 0.8% in March

Load factor also dropped to 84.7%.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group’s passenger traffic fell 0.8% in March 2025, due to the shift in the Easter holiday from March last year to April this year.

Despite the dip, overall passenger capacity rose 2.7% year-on-year.

The group’s passenger load factor (PLF) fell by 3 percentage points to 84.7%, with SIA and its budget arm Scoot posting PLFs of 84.1 per cent and 87.2%, respectively. Both carriers transported a combined total of 3.3 million passengers for the month, marking a 0.8 per cent increase from the previous year.

Meanwhile, overall cargo volume rose by 7.6% YoY, supported by front-loading activity amidst uncertainty in the global trade environment—particularly in East Asia, where cargo load factors rose by 4.4 percentage points.

However, weaker demand in the Americas and Europe limited the overall cargo load increase to 2%, trailing behind a 7.7% rise in capacity. As a result, the cargo load factor fell by 3.1 percentage points to 56.9%. The cargo load factor slipped 3.1 percentage points to 56.9%.

Scoot suspended its Berlin service in March as part of a network review.

By end-March, the group’s passenger network covered 128 destinations in 36 countries and territories. SIA served 79 destinations and Scoot 71. The cargo network spanned 132 destinations in 37 countries and territories.