AirTran Airways Reports Record January Traffic

[Paul]

AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today reported record traffic for the month of January 2006. Revenue passenger miles and enplaned passengers represent records for the month of January.

AirTran Airways' traffic, measured by revenue passenger miles (RPMs), grew by 25.7 percent, to more than 922 million RPMs, on an increase of 28.3 percent in capacity, based on available seat miles (ASMs). The airline enplaned 1,347,515 passengers in the month of January, a 25.8 percent increase from January 2005 and a record for the month of January.

"Our January results give us significant momentum as we start 2006," said Robert L. Fornaro, AirTran Airways' president and chief operating officer. "As we stated in our earnings call last week, we are confident of continued double digit unit revenue improvement in the first quarter."

					 AirTran Airways January 2006 Traffic
								(Preliminary)

									January 2006	January 2005	Change
	Revenue Passenger Miles (000)	 922,253		 733,528		25.7%
	Available Seat Miles (000)	  1,446,530	   1,127,410		28.3%
	Load Factor					 63.8%		   65.1%		  -1.3 points
	Passengers Enplaned			 1,347,515	   1,071,296		25.8%

 

[coolflyingfool]

Not bad, but the load factor was down just a little. Almost a million pax for January. Pretty good. just my thoughts........

 

[Flying Titan]

Am I the only one who's surprised to see a system-wide LF in the mid-60s? I know those 717s are efficient, but this seems too low to make any money, even for an LCC, especially in the current fuel cost environment.