Great Lakes Aviation, has announced preliminary passenger traffic results for December 2008 and the year ending 31 December 2008.
In December 2008, traffic in revenue passenger miles (RPMs) rose 1.6% to 12,315,000 from 12,124,000 in the same period in 2007. Capacity in available seat miles (ASMs), however, went up by 22.2% from 25,701,000 to 31,416,000, resulting in a load factor decrease of 8.0 percentage points (pp) to 39.2% from 47.2% in December 2007. Total passengers carried for the respective months also fell, from 45,197 to 43,576, a drop of 3.6%.
Over the full calendar year RPMs decreased by 1.6% to 154,655,000 from 157,144,000 in 2007. ASMs grew by 13.2% to 360,636,000 last year from 318,524,000 the previous year. A total of 569,844 passengers were carried in 2008, a 1.5% decrease on 2007's figure of 578,773. Load factor fell by 6.4 pp from 49.3% in 2007 to 42.9% last year.
Using a fleet of Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and Beech 1900Ds, Great Lakes Aviation flights are operated under the company's own Great Lakes Airlines brand in conjunction with codeshare agreements with United Airlines and Frontier Airlines.
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