Air China posted a 5.8 percent year-on-year growth in passenger throughput in September to 4.21 million person-times, reports yicai.com, citing a company filing.

The passenger load factor in Septembeer was up 0.8 percentage point to 82.8 percent.

For the first nine months, the airline transported a total of 36.97 million passengers, up six percent year-on-year.

Cargo troughput was up 2.6 percent from a year ealier to 857,014 tons.