Alaska Air Group Reports November Traffic.Business Editors/Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 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 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 6.8 percent to 996.2 million 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 933.0 million flown a year earlier. Capacity during November was 1.538 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), 11.6 percent higher than the 1.378 billion in November 2001. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare paying passengers) for the month was 64.8 percent, compared to 67.7 in November 2001. The airline carried 1,055,300 passengers compared to 1,030,200 in November 2001. RPMs for the eleven-month period totaled 11.980 billion, a 6.4 percent increase from the 11.259 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eleven months ended November 2002 increased 7.7 percent to 17.716 billion ASMs, compared to 16.453 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first eleven months of 2002 was 67.6 percent, compared to 68.4 percent in 2001. The airline carried 12,896,800 passengers compared to 12,596,300 in 2001. HORIZON AIR Horizon Air's November traffic increased 24.5 percent to 119.4 million RPMs from 95.9 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for November was 203.3 million ASMs, 35.7 percent higher than last year's 149.8 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 58.7 percent, compared to 64.0 percent last November. The airline carried 369,100 passengers compared to 333,600 in November 2001. RPMs for the eleven months ended November 2002 totaled 1.368 billion, a 10.2 percent increase from the 1.242 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the eleven-month period increased 11.7 percent to 2.210 billion ASMs, compared to 1.979 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first eleven months of 2002 was 61.9 percent, compared to 62.7 percent in 2001. The airline carried 4,373,700 passengers, compared to 4,301,300 in 2001. |
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