Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has released capacity and operational results for its Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. subsidiary for January and February 2009.
Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) grew slightly (by 0.3%) to 356,779,000 from 355,536,000 in January 2008, while for the same respective months available seat miles (ASMs) rose by 5.8% to 539,638,000 from 509,910,000. This led to a load factor decrease of 3.6 percentage points (pp) from 69.7% in January 2008 to 66.1% in January of this year. The total passengers carried during January 2009 was 776,025, a 1.8% decrease from last year's figure of 790,287.
In February 2009, RPMs were down 3.6% to 326,450,000 from 338,757,000, while ASMs increased by 5.1% from 466,536,000 last February to 490,472,000 in February this year. The load factor thus fell by 6 pp from 72.6% in February 2008 to 66.6% this year. Pinnacle carried 720,865 passengers in February 2009, a fall of 4.6% from last February's figure of 755,391.
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