American Eagle Airlines Reports February Traffic

Paul

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Nov 15, 2005
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American Eagle Airlines reported systemwide traffic for February increased 21 percent from February 2005, on a capacity increase of 11.1 percent. System load factor was 70 percent, up 5.8 points year over year.

American Eagle boarded 1.5 million passengers in February, up 8.1 percent from February 2005.

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								AMERICAN EAGLE
				   COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY
								   FEBRUARY

									 2006			 2005		 CHANGE

	PASSENGER MILES (000)
	  SYSTEM						637,585		 527,096		  21.0 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			  595,621		 485,119		  22.8
		EXECUTIVE					41,964		  41,976		  (0.0)

	SEAT MILES (000)
	  SYSTEM						911,208		 820,434		  11.1 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			  841,343		 748,198		  12.4
		EXECUTIVE					69,864		  72,236		  (3.3)

	LOAD FACTOR
	  SYSTEM						   70.0			64.2		   5.8 pts
		AMERICAN EAGLE				 70.8			64.8		   6.0
		EXECUTIVE					  60.1			58.1		   2.0

	PASSENGERS BOARDED
	  SYSTEM					  1,521,372	   1,407,405		   8.1 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			1,321,468	   1,201,484		  10.0
		EXECUTIVE				   199,904		 205,921		  (2.9)



								 YEAR-TO-DATE

									 2006			2005		   CHANGE

	PASSENGER MILES (000)
	  SYSTEM					  1,307,296	   1,049,222		  24.6 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			1,218,405		 959,078		  27.0
		EXECUTIVE					88,891		  90,145		  (1.4)

	SEAT MILES (000)
	  SYSTEM					  1,923,994	   1,671,398		  15.1 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			1,772,591	   1,515,347		  17.0
		EXECUTIVE				   151,403		 156,050		  (3.0)

	LOAD FACTOR
	  SYSTEM						   67.9			62.8		   5.1 Pts
		AMERICAN EAGLE				 68.7			63.3		   5.4
		EXECUTIVE					  58.7			57.8		   0.9

	PASSENGERS BOARDED
	  SYSTEM					  3,114,797	   2,807,796		  10.9 %
		AMERICAN EAGLE			2,696,025	   2,372,680		  13.6
		EXECUTIVE				   418,772		 435,116		  (3.8)

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