China Southern Airlines Company Limited passenger traffic increased 3.9% year on year to 7,323,500 in October, up from 6,835,250 in September, according to the carrier's operation statistics released on November 14.

Cargo and mails traffic witnessed a 3.3% year-on-year drop to 99,380 tons, down from 108,430 tons in September.

The carrier's passenger load factors rose by 0.1 percentage to 83.2%, while freight load factors dropped 0.8 percentage to 69.35%.

From January to October, China Southern carried 67,807,750 passengers in total, up 4.9% from a year earlier. Cargo and mails traffic increased 1.2% to 928,270 tons.

CZ's A-share was up 1.95% and closed at 6.28 yuan on November 14.