Northwest Airlines reported a decrease of 6.1% in revenue passenger miles and avaliable seat miles were down 8.8%. Though load factors were up for Northwest system wide. Depsite load factors being up for NWA, total passengers year to date are still down 6.7% from last year.
Alaska Airlines reported a higher revenue passenger miles; up 4.2% over this time last year. Avalible seat miles for Alaska also grew; up 3.7% over March 2005. Alaska also carried more people in March of 2006 than last year; they had a load factor of 78.2%. Alaska's Regional partner, Horizon, incresed their March traffic by 14.1% with a load factor of 75.7%.
American Airlines reported a load factor over 80 percent at 81.1%, an increase of nearly 1.0 percent. Traffic grew by 0.2% year over year, while capacity declined by 0.9%. American boarded 8.7 million passengers in March. American Eagle Airlines reported systemwide traffic for March increased 15.7 percent from March 2005, on a capacity increase of 9 percent. System load factor was 74.1 percent, up 4.3 points year over year. American Eagle boarded 1.8 million passengers in March, up 4.1 percent from March 2005.
Delta Airline's system load factor was 80.5 percent in March 2006, up 0.5 points from the same period last year. System traffic for March 2006 decreased 6.1 percent from March 2005 with a capacity decrease of 6.7 percent. Delta boarded 9.6 million passengers during the month of March 2006, a decrease of 13.2 percent from March 2005.
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