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Air Wisconsin Airlines' Paying Customers Down Nearly 30 Percent

Posted on: Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 12:00 CST

By The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.

Nov. 9--GREENVILLE -- Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. said Tuesday that paying passenger traffic in October fell 29.7 percent compared with last year.

Air Wisconsin, which operates as US Airways Express and United Express, reported that traffic declined to 190.3 million revenue passenger miles in October 2005, compared with 270.5 million in October 2004. A revenue passenger mile represents each mile flown by a paying passenger.

Load factor, or the percentage of seats filled by paying passengers, increased to 72.9 percent from 75.1 percent on a 27.5 percent decrease in capacity, as measured in available seat miles.

For the month, the number of passengers flown declined 21.8 percent to 508,849 from 651,000.

Air Wisconsin flies nearly 500 flights daily as US Airways Express and United Express. Chicago-based United Airlines said last April that it is switching all of its United Express regional routes now flown by Air Wisconsin to other carriers. Some routes will begin being transferred in the first quarter of 2006.

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Source: The Post-Crescent

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