Frontier Airlines said Tuesday that it served 1.5 million passengers in August, a 4 percent increase from August 2010.
The airline, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, had a load factor — the measure of how full planes are — of 90 percent, compared with 88 percent in August 2010.
So far in 2011, the airline has served 10,105,805 passengers — an increase of 1 percent over the same period last year, when the figure stood at 9,964,093.
According to the preliminary figures for August, Frontier’s traffic increased 2 percent, to 1.2 billion revenue passenger miles — a measure of traffic for an airline flight calculated by multiplying the number of revenue-paying passengers on a flight by the distance traveled.
Capacity was down 1 percent, at 1.4 billion available seat miles.
