Singapore Air says May load factor drops to 62.8 pct

SINGAPORE, June 15 (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines
(SIAL.SI), the world's biggest airline by market value, said on
Monday it filled 62.8 percent of the space available on its
planes for passengers and cargo in May.

The figure was lower compared to April's 63.7 percent.

Singapore Air said passenger load for May fell to 66.9
percent, from 72.2 percent in April, though its cargo load
factor improved.

Table - Singapore Airlines capacity usage*

May 2009 May 2008 Change
Overall load factor 62.8 66.2 -3.4
points
Passenger load factor 66.9 74.7 -7.8
points
Cargo load factor 61.2 60.7 0.5
points
Passengers carried 1.213 mln 1.590 mln -23.7 pct

* Load factor in percent; passengers carried in million
(Reporting by Harry Suhartono, editing by Neil Chatterjee)