Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has released capacity and operational results for its Colgan Air, Inc subsidiary for April and May 2009.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) grew significantly (by 26.0%) to 52,466,000 from 41,655,000 in April 2008, while for the same respective months, available seat miles (ASMs) rose by 14.6% to 88,935,000 from 77,571,000. This led to a load factor increase of 5.3 percentage points (pp) from 53.7% in April 2008 to 59.0% in April of this year. The total passengers carried during April 2009 was 223,857, a 14.8% increase from last year's figure of 194,936.
In May 2009, RPMs were up 6.1% to 54,961,000 from 51,808,000, while ASMs decreased by 2.1% from 91,683,000 last May to 89,749,000 in May this year. The load factor thus increased by 4.7 pp from 56.5% in May 2008 to 61.2% this year. Colgan carried 236,520 passengers in May 2009, a rise of 3.8% from last May's figure of 227,782.
The average length of a Colgan flight was 221 statute miles compared to 203 statute miles in April 2008, and 219 statute miles compared to 211 statute miles in May 2008.
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