Month: April 2010

U.S. Airlines See March Traffic Jump

Despite decline in its flying capacity, American Airlines’ traffic increased 2.5 percent in March over the same month in 2009. And while American doesn’t estimate revenues in its monthly traffic, US Airways said Monday that its March passenger unit revenues soared
18 percent over a year earlier.

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Allegiant Air Reports First Quarter 2010 Profit

Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, reported $22.6 million in net income for the first quarter. Operating revenue was up 19.4% to $169.6 million. Average aircraft in
operation increased by seven to 46, lifting seat capacity 16.9% from the
year-ago quarter to 1.56 billion ASMs while RPMs increased 17.7% to 1.37
billion. Load factor was 88.2%, up 0.6 point, the “eighth consecutive
quarter of load factors near or above 90%,” Gallagher said.

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SkyWest, Inc. Reports March Traffic Increased for SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines

SkyWest, Inc. reported a 16.8 percent increase in revenue
passenger miles (RPMs) for March, while available seat miles (ASMs) increased
11.9 percent compared to the same period last year.  The combined airlines
generated 1.63 billion RPMs for the month, while ASMs increased to 2.02
billion.  Load factor was up 3.4 percentage points to 81.0 percent compared
to 77.6 percent for the same period last year.  Passenger boardings for
March totaled 3,292,598 a 17.7 percent increase from March 2009.

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