Airlines & Routes

Ryanair reported that June traffic grew 19% compared to the same period in 2007, while the load factor was reported at 84%, compared to 85% in June 2007.

SAS Group’s traffic increased by 3.5% during June and seat capacity was up by 5.9% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 4.0 million passengers in June, up 0.3% vs 2007. Total load factor was down by 1.8 pts to 74.7%.

SAS Group’s traffic increased by 3.5% during June while capacity was up by 5.9% vs 2007. SAS Group carried 4.0 million passengers in June, up 0.3% vs 2007 and the total load factor was down by 1.8 p.u. to 74.7%.

For the month of June, system traffic on a consolidated basis for Air Canada and Jazz rose 1.9% on a capacity increase of 2.7% system wide. This resulted in a load factor of 82.2% versus 82.8% in June 2007.

US Airways Group reported June traffic results. Mainline traffic for the month was down 0.5% from June 2007, capacity was up 0.4% versus June 2007 and the load factor for the month of June was 85.0%, down 0.8 points versus June 2007.

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes released preliminary passenger statistics for the month of June 2008. Consolidated domestic passenger traffic (RPK) for June 2008 increased 18% and capacity (ASK) increased 25% year-over-year (vs. June 2007). Domestic consolidated load factor for the month was 67% and international consolidated load factor was 58%. GOL’s total system load factor for

ALASKA AIRLINES Alaska’s June traffic decreased 2.0 percent to 1.688 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) from 1.723 billion flown a year earlier. Capacity during June was 2.124 billion available seat miles (ASMs), 0.2 percent higher than the 2.119 billion in June 2007. The passenger load factor (the percentage of available seats occupied by fare-paying passengers)

Jazz Air has implemented a number of cost-saving initiatives and is taking additional measures to combat rising fuel costs. Air Canada, Jazz’s primary customer, announced on June 17, 2008, that it would reduce network domestic and transborder capacity by 2% and 13% respectively with the implementation of the fourth quarter 2008 and first quarter 2009

Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for June 2008. International traffic remained strong in June, increasing 13.9 percent year over year on a 14.1 percent increase in capacity. Delta’s international load factor was 83.3 percent, flat compared to June 2007. The load factor for Latin America was 81.6 percent, higher than any previous June on

AirTran Airways reported record traffic for the month of June 2008. The airline reported that revenue passenger miles (RPMs), available seat miles (ASMs), enplaned passengers, and load factor represent new all-time company records for the month of June. For June, traffic grew by 15.5 percent to more than 1.8 billion RPMs based on a 13.0