SkyWest's passenger traffic increased 14.1 percent in October, the St. George-based airline holding company said today.
Traffic rose to 1.56 billion revenue passenger miles from 1.37 billion RPMs a year ago. RPMs are a measure of passenger traffic.
One RPM is equal to one paying passenger traveling one mile.
Available seat miles, a measure of capacity, increased 14.8 percent in October from the same month of 2006. ASMs totaled 2.02 billion, compared with 1.76 billion. An ASM is one available seat flown one mile.
Last week, SkyWest said its fleet size increased to 437 airplanes from 407 in the year ending Sept. 30.
Occupied seats fell to 77.6 percent in October from 78 percent a year ago.
Passenger boardings totaled 3 million, up 12 percent from 2.68 million in October 2006. SkyWest is the parent company of SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines.
