Pinnacle Airlines Reports 1.4 Percent Increase in Passengers

Published on: November 9, 2009

Pinnacle Airlines Corp. released capacity and operational results for its Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. subsidiary for October 2009. Year over year, passengers were up 1.4 percent, available seat miles were down 10.5 percent, and revenue passenger miles were down 9 percent. Load factors were up 1.3 points to 79.6 percent. Year to date, passengers were up 4.1 percent, available seat miles were down 2.5 percent and revenue passenger miles were down 39 percent. Load factors year-to-date were down 1 point to 76 percent.

Pinnacle Airlines Corp. also released capacity and operational results for its Colgan Air, Inc. subsidiary for October 2009. Passengers were down 8.4 percent, available seat miles were down 10.6 percent and revenue passenger miles were down 4 percent year over year. Year to date, passengers were up 8.2 percent, available seat miles were up 4.7 percent and revenue passenger miles were up 13.6 percent. For more information, visit www.pncl.com.