Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has released capacity and operational results for its Colgan Air subsidiary for June 2009 and the first half of the year.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled 58,680,000, a 5.7% increase on June 2008's figure of 55,496,000. Available seat miles (ASMs) were down by 6.0% to 93,383,000 from 99,339,000. The load factor therefore rose, by 6.9 percentage points (pp), to 62.8% from 55.9% in June last year. Passengers carried during the month increase by 3.9% year-on-year, from 240,281 to 249,619.
For the first half of 2009 (1H09), RPMs reached 298,415,000, an increase of 25.6% over the 237,680,000 in 1H08. ASMs were up by 18.6% to 532,554,000 from 449,188,000. The 1H09 load factor was 56.0%, up 3.1 pp from 52.9% in 1H08. Overall passengers numbers were 1,286,549, compared with 1,101,725 in 1H08, a 16.8% increase.
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This week on the Shephard Defence Podcast, senior naval reporter Harry Lye and military training & simulation reporter Norbert Neumann chat with Professor John Louth.
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