Airlines & Routes

Cirrus Design Corporation announced that the most highly anticipated aircraft in the company’s history, currently called ‘The-Jet’, made its first flight at approximately 10 AM CDT on July 3rd, 2008. The 45-minute flight was conducted from company worldwide headquarters at the Duluth International Airport, Duluth, MN and the aircraft performed flawlessly. The-Jet is an all […]

United Airlines reported its preliminary traffic results for June 2008. The company reported a June passenger load factor of 86.5 percent. Total scheduled revenue passenger miles (RPMs) decreased in June by 3.6 percent on a capacity decrease of 0.6 percent in scheduled available seat miles (ASMs) compared with the same period in 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

Southwest Airlines flew 6.9 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in June 2008, a 0.7 percent increase from the 6.8 billion RPMs flown in June 2007. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 5.7 percent to 8.8 billion from the June 2007 level of 8.3 billion. The load factor for the month was 78.2 percent, compared to 82.1

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for June 2008. The company generated 868.0 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs), a 12.3% increase over the same month last year, while available seat miles (ASMs) increased 17.2% to 1.11 billion. Block hours were 63,032 in June 2008, a 12.0% increase over June 2007. Load factor was 78.5%

American Airlines reported a June load factor of 85.5 percent, a decline of 1.7 points versus the same period last year. Traffic decreased 3.1 percent and capacity decreased 1.2 percent year over year. Domestic traffic decreased 4.7 percent year over year on 2.8 percent less capacity. International traffic decreased by 0.1 percent relative to last

American Eagle reported a June load factor of 75.1 percent — down 5.2 points compared to the same period last year. Traffic decreased 8.6 percent year over year as capacity decreased 2.3 percent.

Continental Airlines reported a June consolidated (mainline plus regional) load factor of 83.6%, 2.1 points below the June 2007 consolidated load factor. Continenal reportet a consolidated traffic decrease of 0.1% and a capacity increase of 2.5% as compared to June 2007.

Monarch reported a 5.4% traffic increase for June 2008 compared to the same month in 2007 and a load factor of 84.4%, up 2.9 pts compared to June 2007.

US Airways Group reported that May traffic was up 0.6% from May 2007, capacity was flat versus May 2007 and the load factor for the month of May was 82.3%, up 0.4 points versus May 2007.