Alaska Air Group Reports May Traffic.Business & Travel Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 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 May 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' May traffic increased 1.7 percent to 1.077 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 1.059 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during May was 1.640 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), 6.1 percent higher than the 1.546 billion in May 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 65.7 percent, compared to 68.5 in May 2001. The airline carried 1,168,200 passengers, compared to 1,195,500 in May 2001. RPMs for the five-month period totaled 5.135 billion, a 2.5 percent increase from the 5.009 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the five months ended May 2002 increased 2.7 percent to 7.693 billion ASMs, compared to 7.488 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first five months of 2002 was 66.7 percent, compared to 66.9 percent in 2001. The airline carried 5,511,200 passengers, compared to 5,573,400 in 2001. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's May traffic increased 3.9 percent to 125.2 million RPMs from 120.4 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for May was 209.0 million ASMs, 7.4 percent higher than last year's 194.6 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 59.9 percent, compared to 61.9 percent last May. The airline carried 393,500 passengers, compared to 420,600 in May 2001. RPMs for the five months ended May 2002 totaled 565.5 million, a 0.3 percent decrease from the 567.4 million recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the five-month period increased 0.7 percent to 932.1 million ASMs, compared to 925.6 million in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first five months of 2002 was 60.7 percent, compared to 61.3 percent in 2001. The airline carried 1,854,300 passengers, compared to 1,990,800 in 2001. |
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