United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier. The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]
October was yet another great month for Hawaiian Airlines, the only true inter-Hawaiian airline with a traffic increase of 8.3% year over year. The airlines load factor also rose 2.4 percentage points to a great 85.3%.
But while Hawaiian was enjoying another month of recovery and great results, their only inter-island competitor now, Go!, a subsidiary of [...]
September 2009 proved to be a good month for the nation’s airlines posting the best on-time rate in six years. Combined, the airlines achieved a 86.2 percent on-time rate with that percentage of flight arriving at their destination within 15 minutes of their scheduled time. The ratings and airline rankings are provided by the United [...]
The third quarter had few surprises with the smaller, low-cost centric airlines posting profits, and the bigger guys posting losses. Some of the losses were smaller than expected, and some were rather large and foreboding.
WINNERS
Alaska – Net Income $83 million
Hawaiian – Net Income $31 million
Frontier – Net Income $16 million (consolidated July/August only)
JetBlue – Net [...]
Mokulele, owned by Republic Airways and go!, owned by Mesa Airlines joined forces today to cooperate but operate both Hawaiian inter-island carriers as one entity, but under both brand names. Some details of the deal are still uncertain, but the terms include Mesa owning 75% of the combined carrier and Republic owning 25%.
This comes after go! [...]
Below is a recap of U.S. airlines September operational performance. There was a delay since Southwest did not release their figures until this morning.
AirTran – Capacity up 7.2%; Traffic up 11.0%; Load Factor 77.0%
Alaska – Capcity down 1.4%; Traffic up 1.4%; Load Factor 77.9%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.2%; Traffic up 46.1%; Load Factor 85.2%
American – [...]
The Depart of Transportation has released the August 2009 on-time report for U.S. airlines. The rankings are as follows:
Hawaiian – 94.7%
Alaska – 85.8%
SkyWest – 84.4%
Frontier – 83.8%
ExpressJet – 83.4%
Southwest – 82.8%
Continental – 82.4%
US Airways 81.4%
United – 80.1%
American Eagle – 79.6%
Mesa – 79.2%
Pinnacle – 79.2%
Delta – 78.6%
American – 77.2%
JetBlue – 76.0%
Northwest – 74.4%
AirTran – 74.2%
Atlantic Southeast [...]
Hawaiian Airlines has announced some changes to their schedules for next summer. The airline will add new service between Maui and San Diego as well as between Maui and Oakland. Both of these flights will be daily service and operate for the summer market peak season.
The airline will also add a second daily flight between [...]
The pilots of Hawaiian Airlines have voted 98% in favor of a strike authroization. This does not mean a strike is imminent, but it does give the union the ability to strike if current talks with the mediator fail to provide an agreement.
The talks will be continuing in October with a Federal Mediator in the [...]
Here are some key numbers from US Airlines posted performance for August 2009…
AirTran – Capacity down 3.4%; Traffic down 6.1%; Load Factor 84.9%
Alaska – Capacity down 2.9%; Traffic down 0.8%; Load Factor 84.3%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.9%; Traffic up 45.8%; Load Factor 90.2%
American – Capacity down 9.4%; Traffic down 8.1%; Load Factor 84.7%
Continental – Capacity [...]
