Allegiant Air has reported preliminary passenger traffic results for March and the first quarter of 2009. The number of passengers carried on scheduled services rose by 20.9% to 515,298 compared with 426,280 in March 2008.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) stood at 468,600,000, a 19.1% increase over March 2008's figure of 393,314,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) for the respective months were 507,852,000 and 433,009,000, a 17.3% increase. This resulted in a load factor increase of 1.5 percentage points from 90.8% last March to 92.3% in March this year.
Over the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), passengers on scheduled flights numbered 1,210,325, up 14.8% from 1,054,398 in 1Q08. The airline reported 1Q09 RPMs of 1,102,470,000, an increase of 13.3% over 1Q08's 973,248,000. ASMs for the respective periods were 1,214,832,000 and 1,120,013,000. This equated to an 8.5% increase from 1Q08 to 1Q09. The load factor for 1Q09 was 90.8%, a rise of 3.9 pp over the 86.9% reported for 1Q08.
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