US airlines carried 1.4% more passengers year-over-year in April
Posted 01/08/2011
US airlines carried 60.5 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in April, the most recent month for which data is available. Passengers carried for the month rose 1.4% year-over-year but was still 4.3% below pre-recession April 2008 figures, the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics noted.
April scheduled domestic and international traffic for US airlines rose 4.2% over April 2010 to 66.7 billion RPMs on a 5.4% rise in capacity to 82.7 billion ASMs. Load factor was 80.7%, up 0.97 point.
Originally published 1 Aug 2011 at: http://feeds.atwonline.com/~r/AtwDailyNews/~3/A3n2nxGqRX8/us-airlines-carried-14-more-passengers-year-over-year-april-0729
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