A Cathay Pacific Airways statement said that the traffic figures for December 2011 that show growth in passenger numbers closer to capacity growth than in previous months, though cargo and mail tonnage showed another significant year-on-year decline. It said that the Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a total of 2,460,016 passengers in December up 7.9 percent on the same month last year while the passenger load factor fell by 0.5 percentage points to 79.6 percent. Capacity for the month, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), was up by 8.7 percent. For 2011 as a whole, the number of passengers carried rose by 2.9 percent compared to the previous year, while capacity increased by 9.2 percent