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American Airlines Reports August Traffic
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines reported that August traffic increased 3.1 percent versus the same period last year. Capacity increased by 3.2 percent year over year, resulting in a load factor of 84.6 percent, which was within 0.1 points of last year's load factor.
Domestic traffic increased 0.6 percent year over year on 0.8 percent more capacity. International traffic increased by 7.1 percent relative to last year on a capacity increase of 7.0 percent.
American boarded 7.7 million passengers in August.
Detailed traffic and capacity are attached.
AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION | |||||||||
COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY | |||||||||
EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES | |||||||||
August | |||||||||
2010 | 2009 | CHANGE | |||||||
| REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000) | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 11,512,213 | 11,170,359 | 3.1 | % | |||||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 6,969,227 | 6,928,717 | 0.6 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 4,542,986 | 4,241,643 | 7.1 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 1,895,823 | 1,867,016 | 1.5 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 2,080,750 | 1,908,242 | 9.0 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 566,413 | 466,385 | 21.4 | ||||||
| AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000) | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 13,614,380 | 13,191,390 | 3.2 | % | |||||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 8,109,508 | 8,044,887 | 0.8 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 5,504,872 | 5,146,503 | 7.0 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 2,256,754 | 2,246,673 | 0.4 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 2,564,848 | 2,319,592 | 10.6 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 683,270 | 580,238 | 17.8 | ||||||
| LOAD FACTOR | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 84.6 | % | 84.7 | % | -0.1 | pts | |||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 85.9 | 86.1 | -0.2 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 82.5 | 82.4 | 0.1 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 84 | 83.1 | 0.9 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 81.1 | 82.3 | -1.1 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 82.9 | 80.4 | 2.5 | ||||||
| PASSENGERS BOARDED | 7,712,854 | 7,723,404 | -0.1 | % | |||||
| SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) | 156,570 | 137,913 | 13.5 | % | |||||
AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION | |||||||||
COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY | |||||||||
EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES | |||||||||
YEAR-TO-DATE August | |||||||||
2010 | 2009 | CHANGE | |||||||
| REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000) | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 84,391,243 | 82,972,580 | 1.7 | % | |||||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 52,232,730 | 52,103,055 | 0.2 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 32,158,513 | 30,869,525 | 4.2 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 12,578,168 | 12,540,389 | 0.3 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 15,561,739 | 14,728,953 | 5.7 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 4,018,605 | 3,600,183 | 11.6 | ||||||
| AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000) | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 102,617,020 | 102,875,431 | -0.3 | % | |||||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 62,498,678 | 62,579,059 | -0.1 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 40,118,342 | 40,296,373 | -0.4 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 15,574,282 | 16,253,632 | -4.2 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 19,768,692 | 19,493,660 | 1.4 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 4,775,368 | 4,549,081 | 5.0 | ||||||
| LOAD FACTOR | |||||||||
| SYSTEM | 82.2 | % | 80.7 | % | 1.6 | pts | |||
| D.O.T. DOMESTIC | 83.6 | 83.3 | 0.3 | ||||||
| INTERNATIONAL | 80.2 | 76.6 | 3.6 | ||||||
| ATLANTIC | 80.8 | 77.2 | 3.6 | ||||||
| LATIN AMERICA | 78.7 | 75.6 | 3.2 | ||||||
| PACIFIC | 84.2 | 79.1 | 5.0 | ||||||
| PASSENGERS BOARDED | 58,126,180 | 58,313,835 | -0.3 | % | |||||
| SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) | 1,244,498 | 1,044,082 | 19.2 | % | |||||
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SOURCE American Airlines
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