Frontier Airlines reports Jan-09 traffic

Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc. announced (05-Feb-09) preliminary traffic results for Jan-09 for both Frontier's mainline operation as well as its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lynx Aviation. Lynx commenced revenue service in Dec-07.

 

Mainline Results for Jan-09:

* Revenue passenger miles decreased 16.0% to 632,946,000 and capacity (as measured by available seat miles) was down 13.3% to 901,369,000 from the same period last year. This resulted in a load factor of 70.2%, a decrease of 2.3 points over Jan-08.
* The airline reported passenger yield of 10.44 cents, up 0.16 cents or 1.6% from Jan-08.
* Passenger unit revenue decreased 1.7% to 7.33 cents.
* The airline carried 696,445 passengers, an 8.7% decrease from the same period last year.
* The airline's average length of haul decreased 8.0% to 909 miles.

Lynx Aviation Results for Jan-09:

* Lynx Aviation reported revenue passenger miles of 22,033,000 and available seat miles of 45,852,000. This resulted in a load factor for January 2009 of 48.1%.
* Lynx carried 64,472 passengers, with a passenger yield of 22.79 cents.
* Passenger revenue per available seat mile was 10.95 cents with an average length of haul of 342 miles in Jan-09.


(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 06-Feb-09

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