Alaska Air Group Reports March Traffic.Business Editors/Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 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 March 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' March traffic decreased 0.4 percent to 1.153 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 1.158 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during March was 1.651 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), 1.7 percent higher than the 1.623 billion in March 2002. 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 69.9 percent, compared to 71.4 percent in March 2002. The airline carried 1,187,600 passengers compared to 1,232,000 in March 2002. RPMs for the three-month period totaled 3.143 billion, a 5.5 percent increase from the 2.977 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the three months ended March 2003 increased 5.4 percent to 4.709 billion ASMs, compared to 4.467 billion in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first three months of 2003 was 66.7 percent, the same as in 2002. The airline carried 3,258,000 passengers compared to 3,193,000 in 2002. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's March traffic increased 4.6 percent to 129.9 million RPMs from 124.2 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for March was 215.7 million ASMs, 15.0 percent higher than last year's 187.6 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 60.2 percent, compared to 66.2 percent last March. The airline carried 388,600 passengers compared to 406,000 in March 2002. RPMs for the three months ended March 2003 totaled 357.5 million, an 8.6 percent increase from the 329.2 million recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the three month period increased 15.9 percent to 615.6 million ASMs, compared to 531.2 million in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first three months of 2003 was 58.1 percent, compared to 62.0 percent in 2002. The airline carried 1,088,200 passengers, compared to 1,095,000 in 2002. |
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