China Southern Airlines, China's largest carrier by fleet size, said it carried 4.88 mln passengers in April, up 17.4 pct year-on-year.

In a statement on its website the airline said it carried 77,390 tons of cargo in April, up 7.8 pct year-on-year.

The passenger load factor in April was 74.6 pct, unchanged from a year earlier, while the overall load factor was at 65.7 pct, down 0.7 percentage point from a year earlier, the airline said.

For the first four months of the year, the airline carried 17.44 mln passengers, up 17 pct year-on-year, and 267,110 tons of cargo, up 5.7 pct.