Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. Reports March 2010 Traffic

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Apr 07, 2010, 03:50 ET

CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: GLUX) today announced preliminary passenger traffic results for the month of March 2010.

MARCH 2010 AND YEAR TO DATE STATISTICS

	Mar-10	Mar-09	Change
Passengers Enplaned	38,381	37,895	1.3 %
Revenue Passenger Miles (000)	11,178	10,484	6.6 %
Available Seat Miles (000)	32,160	33,345	(3.6) %
Load Factor	34.76%	31.44%	3.3 pts
RASM (cents)	30.87	28.31	9.0 %

	YTD 2010	YTD 2009	Change
Passengers Enplaned	105,727	110,352	(4.2) %
Revenue Passenger Miles (000)	30,665	30,513	0.5 %
Available Seat Miles (000)	91,497	96,759	(5.4) %
Load Factor	33.5%	31.5%	2.0 pts
RASM (cents)	30.03	28.29	6.2 %

Great Lakes is providing scheduled passenger service at 59 airports in fifteen states with a fleet of Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and Raytheon/Beech 1900D regional airliners. Additional information is available at http://www.flygreatlakes.com/ including a current route map at http://www.flygreatlakes.com/route_map/route_map.htm.

All scheduled flights are operated under the Great Lakes Airlines marketing identity in conjunction with code-share agreements with United Airlines and/or Frontier Airlines at our Albuquerque, Billings, Denver, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Kansas City, MO and Ontario, CA hubs. Starting today, we commenced operations at our new hub in Las Vegas, NV.