Alaska Air Group Reports October Traffic.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 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 October October: 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' October traffic increased 18.4 percent to 961.7 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 812.2 million flown a year earlier. Capacity during October was 1.576 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), 23.4 percent higher than the 1.277 billion in October 2001. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare paying passengers) for the month was 61.0 percent, compared to 63.6 in October 2001. The airline carried 1,054,500 passengers compared to 923,400 in October 2001. RPMs for the ten-month period totaled 10.984 billion, a 6.4 percent increase from the 10.326 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the ten months ended October 2002 increased 7.3 percent to 16.178 billion ASMs, compared to 15.075 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first ten months of 2002 was 67.9 percent, compared to 68.5 percent in 2001. The airline carried 11,841,400 passengers compared to 11,566,100 in 2001. Horizon Air Horizon Air's October traffic increased 26.8 percent to 121.1 million RPMs from 95.5 million flown a year earlier. Capacity for October was 212.2 million ASMs, 36.4 percent higher than last year's 155.6 million. The passenger load factor for the month was 57.1 percent, compared to 61.4 percent last October. The airline carried 384,000 passengers compared to 333,100 in October 2001. RPMs for the ten months ended October 2002 totaled 1.249 billion, a 9.0 percent increase from the 1.146 billion recorded a year earlier. Capacity for the ten-month period increased 9.7 percent to 2.007 billion ASMs, compared to 1.829 billion in 2001. The passenger load factor for the first ten months of 2002 was 62.2 percent, compared to 62.6 percent in 2001. The airline carried 4,004,700 passengers, compared to 3,967,700 in 2001. |
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