Alaska Air Group Reports July Traffic.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 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 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 2.1 percent to 1.308 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 1.281 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during July was 1.810 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), 3.4 percent higher than the 1.750 billion in July 2001. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare paying passengers) for the month was 72.2 percent, compared to 73.2 percent in July 2001. The airline carried 1,400,300 passengers compared to 1,437,100 in July 2001. RPMs for the seven-month period totaled 7.657 billion, a 2.6 percent increase from the 7.466 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the seven months ended July 2002 increased 3.2 percent to 11.206 billion ASMs, compared to 10.861 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first seven months of 2002 was 68.3 percent, compared to 68.7 percent in 2001. The airline carried 8,209,500 passengers compared to 8,332,700 in 2001. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's July traffic increased 7.4 percent to 144.2 million RPMs from 134.3 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for July was 225.2 million ASMs, 10.2 percent higher than last year's 204.4 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 64.1 percent, compared to 65.7 percent last July. The airline carried 446,000 passengers compared to 452,500 in July 2001. RPMs for the seven months ended July 2002 totaled 847.6 million, a 2.4 percent increase from the 827.7 million recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the seven-month period increased 3.0 percent to 1.363 billion ASMs, compared to 1.323 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first seven months of 2002 was 62.2 percent, compared to 62.6 percent in 2001. The airline carried 2,732,900 passengers, compared to 2,879,900 in 2001. |
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