Despite the recent scare episodes on a number of its flights in November, Qantas Airways Ltd still managed to raise its passenger traffic prior to the incidents as the Australian national carrier revealed that more domestic and international travellers took Qantas flights in the month of October.

Qantas announced on Wednesday that its passenger rate climbed up by 8.8 percent in October when pitted against the number of passengers in the same month last year while the airline's revenue passenger kilometres jumped from 5.4 percent to 9.38 billion.

Qantas said that the revenue passenger kilometres is the actual number of paying travellers, with the figures multiplied to the precise distance that they have flown and resulting to a slide of 0.8 point in revenue seat factor as the number of available seat kilometres increased by about six per cent.

On the other hand, the revenue seat factor, according to Qantas, refers to the percentage of revenues passenger kilometres to available seat kilometres, which for the month October dropped by 0.8 point as revealed by the year to data statistics.

Qantas said that from the year's start and onto October, the company saw a spike of 8.8 percent to 15,290 in the number of passengers carried while its revenue passenger kilometres surged by 6.4 per cent.

The airline's other brands have also registered significant figures in the month, signalling that recovery is underway following the debacles that the company had encountered in November due to the grounding of its entire A380 fleet.

Jetstar Asia posted an increase of 44.4 percent on its passenger traffic from the start of the year to October while Jetstar International saw a boost of up to 6.8 per cent on its passenger loads.

On the other hand, QantasLink has reported that travellers riding its planes shot up by 14.9 per cent.

Overall, Qantas Airways' domestic traffic improved by 5.2 percent while its international numbers jumped by 2.5 per cent, with both figures pitted against the equivalent data from 12 months ago.