Alaska Air Group Reports August Traffic.Business Editors/Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2002 Alaska Alaska (əlă`skə), largest in area of the United States but third smallest (exceeding only Vermont and Wyoming) in population, occupying the northwest extremity of the North American continent, separated from the coterminous United States Air Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALK ALK Alkohol (German: alcohol) ALK Alkaline ALK Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase ALK Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte ALK Activin Receptor-Like Kinase ALK Alkylation ALK Srilankan Airlines (ICAO code) ) today reported August passenger traffic for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. and Horizon Air. ALASKA AIRLINES Alaska Airlines' August traffic increased 3.2 percent to 1.371 billion revenue passenger miles Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is a measure of a passenger traffic for an airline flight, bus, or train calculated by multiplying the total number of revenue-paying passengers aboard the vehicle by the distance traveled measured in miles. (RPMs) from 1.329 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during August was 1.817 billion available seat miles Available seat miles (ASM) is a measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity. It is equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown. This measures an airlines capacity for transporting passengers. (ASMs), 3.6 percent higher than the 1.754 billion in August 2001. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied oc·cu·py tr.v. oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing, oc·cu·pies 1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours. 2. To dwell or reside in. 3. by fare paying passengers) for the month was 75.5 percent, compared to 75.8 in August 2001. The airline carried 1,481,200 passengers compared to 1,504,500 in August 2001. RPMs for the eight-month period totaled 9.029 billion, a 2.7 percent increase from the 8.795 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eight months ended August 2002 increased 3.2 percent to 13.023 billion ASMs, compared to 12.615 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first eight months of 2002 was 69.3 percent, compared to 69.7 percent in 2001. The airline carried 9,690,700 passengers compared to 9,837,200 in 2001. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's August traffic increased 10.3 percent to 157.2 million RPMs from 142.5 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for August was 230.9 million ASMs, 12.7 percent higher than last year's 204.9 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 68.1 percent, compared to 69.5 percent last August. The airline carried 488,500 passengers compared to 480,800 in August 2001. RPMs for the eight months ended August 2002 totaled 1.005 billion, a 3.6 percent increase from the 970.2 million recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eight-month period increased 4.3 percent to 1.594 billion ASMs, compared to 1.528 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first eight months of 2002 was 63.0 percent, compared to 63.5 percent in 2001. The airline carried 3,221,500 passengers, compared to 3,360,700 in 2001. |
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