Frontier Airlines April Passenger Traffic Up

Frontier Airlines has reported that its mainline revenue passenger miles increased 7.7% to 849.51 million in April 2008 from 788.68 million in the same period of 2007.

The mainline available seat miles increased 2.1% to 1.04 billion in April 2008, compared to 1.02 billion in April 2007. This resulted in a mainline load factor of 81.5%, an increase of 4.3 points, compared to 77.2% in April 2007. The airline has carried 878,837 mainline passengers during April 2008, an increased of 6.5%, compared to 825,329 passengers in April 2007.

Lynx Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Frontier Airlines, has reported revenue passenger miles of 24.48 million and available seat miles of 42.21 million. This resulted in a load factor for April 2008 of 58%.

Lynx Aviation has carried 60,851 passengers during April 2008, generating passenger yield of 18.16 cents. Lynx Aviation passenger revenue per available seat mile was 10.53 cents and its average length of haul was 402 miles for April 2008.

Sean Menke, president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, said: “Although our April mainline year-over-year passenger unit revenue decreased slightly due to a short slowdown in bookings after we announced our reorganization, we are very encouraged by the recovery to normal levels that took place as we demonstrated that it was business as usual for Frontier.”