Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA) and its Copa Airlines and AeroRepublica operating subsidiaries, today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for January 2006:
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January January Change
2006 2005(*) (%)
Copa Holdings (Consolidated) (*)
ASM (mm) (1) 561.0 465.1 20.6%
RPM (mm) (2) 411.5 336.3 22.4%
Load Factor (3) 73.4% 72.3% 1.1 p.p.
Copa Airlines
ASM (mm) (1) 414.0 352.0 17.6%
RPM (mm) (2) 319.2 255.1 25.1%
Load Factor (3) 77.1% 72.5% 4.6 p.p.
AeroRepublica
ASM (mm) (1) 147.0 113.1 30.0%
RPM (mm) (2) 92.3 81.2 13.7%
Load Factor (3) 62.7% 71.8% -9.1 p.p.
(*) Figures for January 2005 are not comparable for Copa Holdings, due
to our purchase of AeroRepublica on April 22, 2005.
(1.) Available seat miles -- represents the aircraft seating capacity
multiplied by the number of miles the seats are flown.
(2.) Revenue passenger miles -- represents the numbers of miles flown by
revenue passengers
(3.) Load factor- represents the percentage of aircraft seating capacity
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