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Regional Airline Passenger Traffic

in
Thousands of Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs)

September 2008
Sorted by September 2008 RPMs

Airline RPMs RPMs % ASMs ASMs % Loads Loads Pt. RPM

 

Sep 08

Sep 07

Chg.

Sep08

Sep 07

Chg.

Sep 08

Sep 07

Chg.

Share

Skywest

1,291,283

1,442,656

-10.5%

1,688,502

1,899,138

-11.1%

76.5%

76.0%

0.5

24.5%

Chautauqua

684,192

735,408

-7.0%

992,172

1,015,354

-2.3%

69.0%

72.4%

-3.5

13.0%

American Eagle

587,440

709,411

-17.2%

910,707

1,010,514

-9.9%

64.5%

70.2%

-5.7

11.2%

ExpressJet

526,000

791,921

-33.6%

744,000

1,135,614

-34.5%

70.7%

69.7%

1.0

10.0%

Mesa

500,346

525,760

-4.8%

632,360

642,574

-1.6%

79.1%

81.8%

-2.7

9.5%

Pinnacle

373,209

381,003

-2.0%

506,450

502,124

0.9%

73.7%

75.9%

-2.2

7.1%

Comair

302,692

362,255

-16.4%

432,460

490.144

-11.8%

70.0%

73.9%

-3.9

5.8%

Mesaba

224,965

58,439

285.0%

297,492

87,423

240.3%

75.6%

66.8%

8.8

4.3%

Horizon

201,100

238,600

-15.7%

277,000

334,600

-17.2%

72.6%

71.3%

1.3

3.8%

US Airways Express

167,007

174,205

-4.1%

260,194

264,209

-1.5%

64.2%

65.9%

-1.7

3.2%

Air Wisconsin

157,066

175,590

-10.5%

233,485

252,427

-7.5%

67.3%

69.6%

-2.3

3.0%

Trans States

148,515

155,649

-4.6%

196,330

200,392

-2.0%

75.6%

77.7%

-2.0

2.8%

Compass

143,197

4,521

3067.4%

175,764

4,994

3419.5% 

81.5%

90.5%

-9.1

2.7%

GoJet

93,127

87,657

6.2 

113,029

107,179

5.5%

82.4%

81.8%

0.0

1.7%

Total

5,400,139

5,843,075

-7.6%

7,459,948

7,946,686

-6.1%

72.4%

73.5%

-1.1

100.0%


Notes:  Carriers shown operate jet regional aircraft providing passenger feed to major airlines.


1) US Airways Express includes US Airways' wholly-owned subsidiaries Piedmont and PSA.

2) Compass, GoJet, ExpressJet, Skywest,
Trans States, Mesa and Mesaba Airlines do not release passenger traffic statistics to FLTops.com.  The numbers shown are from public filings at the DOT and are lagging by 2 months.

3) Numbers for Skywest include combined Skywest and Atlantic Southeast Airlines numbers.

4) Chautauqua traffic numbers include sister companies, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America.