Horizon Air has announced its traffic figures for June 2009 and for the first half of the year.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) numbered 226 million, down 9.2% from June 2008's 248 million. Capacity in available seat miles (ASMs), however, was cut by 10.8% from 319 million to 284 million, leading to an increase in load factor to 79.4%, up 1.4 percentage points (pp) from the 78.0% achieved in June 2008. The total passengers carried in June 2009 was 608,000, a 10.3% decrease on the 678,000 carried last June.
For the first half of 2009 (1H09), Horizon recorded 1,133 million RPMs, a drop of 16.3% on 1H08's figure of 1,353 million. ASMs were down by 14.4% from 1,886 million in 1H08 to 1,615 million in 1H09. The resultant load factor for 1H09 was 70.2%, 1.5pp below the 1H08 figure of 71.7%. The airline carried 3,240,000 in 1H09, 13.9% below the 3,765,000 carried in the respective period last year.
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