Star Flyer Inc. announced its August 2026 domestic traffic results. Passenger numbers across all routes totaled 158,484, available seats totaled 182,557, and the load factor was 87.0%.
Passenger numbers across all domestic routes in August 2026 rose 0.8% year on year to 158,484, while available seats increased 0.8% to 182,557. The overall load factor was 87.0%, up 0.4 percentage points year on year, and the completion factor and on-time departure rate were 99.8% and 88.3%, respectively, indicating stable performance.
By route, the Fukuoka–Haneda route had the highest load factor of all routes at 97.1%, with 523 flights operated, up 2.3% from the previous month. Meanwhile, the Kitakyushu–Haneda route maintained 663 flights, while its load factor was 77.7%, down 2.0 percentage points. The Fukuoka–Sendai route, which began service on 3 October 2025, recorded an 84.2% load factor and a 95.2% on-time departure rate on 124 flights.
The August 2026 load factor breakdown by route was 97.1% for Fukuoka–Haneda, 93.0% for Fukuoka–Chubu, 88.7% for Yamaguchi-Ube–Haneda, 87.8% for Kansai–Haneda, 84.2% for Fukuoka–Sendai, 77.7% for Kitakyushu–Haneda and 87.0% for all routes combined.
The traffic results do not include seats sold by All Nippon Airways (ANA). International routes remained suspended from 11 March 2020 and were therefore excluded from this calculation.