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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- American Eagle Airlines, which operates regional flights for AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, on Tuesday reported its traffic grew 1.8 percent in September. The airline said monthly traffic rose to 709.4 million revenue passenger miles from 697.1 million a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile is an industry unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile. Capacity gained 1 percent to 1.01 billion available seat miles from 1 billion in September 2006. Occupancy, or load factor, increased to 70.2 percent from 69.7 percent a year earlier. So far this year, American Eagle's traffic has fallen 0.4 percent to 6.75 billion revenue passenger miles from 6.78 billion the year before. Its capacity during the first nine months of the year dropped 0.3 percent to 9.13 billion available seat miles from 9.16 billion in the year-ago period. Occupancy remained flat at 74 percent. Shares of AMR Corp. jumped $1.40, or 6 percent, to $24.65 in afternoon trading. The stock has ranged from $20.28 to $41 over the past year.
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