Frontier Airlines today said that it served 1.5 million passengers in August, a four 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 in August compared to 88 percent in August 2010.
So far in 2011, the airline has served 10,105,805 passengers – an increase of one 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 two 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 one percent, at 1.4 billion available seat miles.
The ASM is equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
