Alaska Air Group Reports July Traffic.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003 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 July July: see month. 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' July traffic increased 15.2 percent to 1.506 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 1.308 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during July was 2.0 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), 10.5 percent higher than the 1.810 billion in July 2002. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare paying passengers) for the month was 75.3 percent, compared to 72.2 percent in July 2002. The airline carried 1,551,300 passengers compared to 1,400,300 in July 2002. RPMs for the seven-month period totaled 8.327 billion, an 8.7 percent increase from the 7.657 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the seven months ended July 2003 increased 6.4 percent to 11.918 billion ASMs, compared to 11.206 billion in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first seven months of 2003 was 69.9 percent, compared to 68.3 percent in 2002. The airline carried 8,606,200 passengers compared to 8,209,500 in 2002. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's July traffic increased 15.4 percent to 166.4 million RPMs from 144.3 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for July was 244.7 million ASMs, 8.6 percent higher than last year's 225.2 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 68.0 percent, compared to 64.1 percent last July. The airline carried 483,200 passengers compared to 446,000 in July 2002. RPMs for the seven months ended July 2003 totaled 924.2 million, a 9.0 percent increase from the 847.7 million recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the seven-month period increased 9.5 percent to 1.493 billion ASMs, compared to 1.363 billion in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first seven months of 2003 was 61.9 percent, compared to 62.2 percent in 2002. The airline carried 2,778,000 passengers, compared to 2,733,000 in 2002. |
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