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Allegiant reports December and full-year 2009 traffic

6th January 2010 - 21:42 GMT | by Shephard News Team

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Allegiant Air has announced its preliminary passenger traffic results for December and for the whole of 2009.

Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for the month numbered 406,238,000, an 18.6% increase on December 2008’s figure of 342,616,000. Capacity, in available seat miles (ASMs) rose to 448,398,000, 16.1% up on the 386,108,000 recorded a year earlier.

This pushed the month’s load factor into the nineties at 90.6%, 1.9 percentage points up on the 88.7% achieved the year before. Total passengers carried during the month increased by 13.2% to 429,993 from 379,907, with departures rising to 3,232 from 2,946, a 9.7% increase.

For the whole of 2009, the airline generated 4,477,119,000 RPMs, a 28.1% increase on the 2008 figure of 3,495,956,000. ASMs reached 4,950,954,000, up 27.4% from the previous year’s 3,886,696,000.

Like the December figure, the load factor thus rose into the nineties at 90.4%, 0.5 pp up on the 89.9% for 2008. Passengers carried though, went up by a hefty 26.3% to 4,919,826,000, compared with 3,894,968,000 in 2008. Departures also rose considerably, by 25.6%, to 37,115 from 29,548.