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Great Lakes announces December and full 2009 traffic data

8th January 2010 - 18:30 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

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Great Lakes Aviation has released its preliminary passenger traffic results for December 2009 and the year ending 31 December 2009.

In December 2009, revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled 11,790,000, a 4.3% drop from 12,315,000 in December 2008. Available seat miles (ASMs), however, grew by 0.8% to 31,682,000 from 31,416,000, leading to a 2.0 percentage point fall in the load factor to 37.2% from 39.2% the previous December.

Passengers carried numbered 40,884, compared with December 2008’s 43,576 passengers, a 6.2% decrease. The revenue per ASM (RASM), however, increased by 1.7% to 31.79 cents from 31.26 cents.

For the whole of 2009, RPMs decreased by 13.3% to 134,077,000 from 154,655,000 in 2008, while ASMs grew by 11.2% to 401,068,000 from 360,636,000, creating a 9.5 pp fall in the annual load factor to 33.4% compared with 2008’s figure of 42.9%.

Again, the passengers carried over the period fell, this time by 15.5% to 481,688 compared with 569,844 in the whole of 2008. RASM also decreased year-on-year, by 5.7%, to 29.45 cents from 31.24 cents.

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