Alaska Air Group Reports November Traffic.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 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 November November: 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' November traffic increased 18.5 percent to 1.180 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 996.3 million flown a year earlier. Capacity during November was 1.687 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), 9.7 percent higher than the 1.538 billion in November 2002. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare paying passengers) for the month was 70.0 percent, compared to 64.8 percent in November 2002. The airline carried 1,211,500 passengers compared to 1,055,300 in November 2002. RPMs for the eleven-month period totaled 13.252 billion, a 10.6 percent increase from the 11.980 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eleven months ended November 2003 increased 7.4 percent to 19.020 billion ASMs, compared to 17.716 billion in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first eleven months of 2003 was 69.7 percent, compared to 67.6 percent in 2002. The airline carried 13,729,800 passengers compared to 12,896,800 in 2002. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's November traffic increased 12.5 percent to 134.3 million RPMs from 119.4 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for November was 200.6 million ASMs, 1.3 percent lower than last year's 203.3 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 67.0 percent, compared to 58.7 percent last November. The airline carried 402,500 passengers compared to 369,100 in November 2002. RPMs for the eleven months ended November 2003 totaled 1.497 billion, a 9.4 percent increase from the 1.368 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eleven-month period increased 6.8 percent to 2.361 billion ASMs, compared to 2.211 billion in 2002. The passenger load factor for the first eleven months of 2003 was 63.4 percent, compared to 61.9 percent in 2002. The airline carried 4,503,200 passengers, compared to 4,373,800 in 2002. |
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