American Airlines’ August Traffic Falls
2 September 2006The world’s largest airline said traffic dropped to 12.48 billion revenue passenger miles from 12.65 billion, in the year-ago period. A revenue passenger mile is an industry unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile.
Capacity declined to 15.21 billion available seat miles, down from last year’s 15.5 billion. Occupancy grew by less than 1 percentage point, to 81.9 percent from 81.5 percent.
fuente: chron.com