American Eagle Airlines has reported its January 2009 traffic figures along with those of its subsidiary, Executive Airlines.
Eagle’s own revenue passenger miles (RPMs) fell by 18.2% from 588,005,000 in January 2008 to 480,994,000 in January 2009. Capacity over the respective months, in available seat miles (ASMs), was reduced from 888,476,000 to 771,966,000. This resulted in a load factor decrease of 3.9 percentage points (pp) from 66.2% to 62.3% year over year. Passengers carried by American Eagle numbered 1,070,636 in January 2009, a 17.9% decrease on 1,304,531 in January 2008.
Executive Airlines reported RPMs for January 2009 of 40,932,000, 13.7% down on January 2008’s figure of 47,436,000. ASMs dropped by 4.5% to 80,623,000 from 84,422,000 over the respective period.
Executive’s load factor for January 2009 was 50.8%, a 5.4 pp drop from 56.2% last January. Passenger numbers decreased by 7.2% year-on-year from 217,041 to 201,503.
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