Alaska Air Group August Traffic And Capacity Rise - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Alaska Air Group Inc. (ALK) reported August operational results on a consolidated basis, and for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.

On a combined basis, Air Group reported a 6.8 percent increase in traffic on a 7.5 percent increase in capacity compared to August 2013. Load factor decreased 0.5 points to 87.3 percent. These statistics include flights operated by Alaska and those under capacity purchase agreements, including Horizon, SkyWest Airlines and PenAir.

Combined Traffic, measured in revenue passenger miles or RPMs, for the month increased 6.8% to 2.89 billion from 2.71 billion RPMs in the same month last year.

Combined capacity, measured in available seat miles or ASMs, grew 7.5% to 3.32 billion from last year's 3.08 billion ASMs.

Alaska reported a 6.2 percent increase in traffic on a 6.6 percent increase in capacity compared to August 2013. Load factor decreased 0.4 points to 87.6 percent. Alaska also reported 83.8 percent of its flights arrived on-time in August, compared to 85.1 percent reported in August 2013.

Horizon reported a 3.5 percent increase in August traffic on a 7.6 percent increase in capacity compared to August 2013. Load factor decreased 3.3 points to 82.3 percent. Horizon also reported 88.4 percent of its flights arrived on-time in August, compared to the 86.7 percent reported in August 2013.