American Airlines' traffic declines - Dayton Business Journal:

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Both airlines are subsidiaries ofFort Worth-based (NYSE: American Eagle alone saw its May traffic tumble 14.3 percenr compared to the same period last while capacity fell 14.5 percent. The regionaol airline flew 622.9 million revenur passenger milesin May, down from 726 million revenude passenger miles in May 2008. Americah Eagle boarded 1.5 million passengers in May; its load factotr — a measure of the percentage of a plane fillede with payingcustomers — of 73.3 percenty remained consistent with May of last American Airlines Inc. saw its traffic fall 11.7 percen t in May, while its capacity dropped 8.8 percent compared to the previous During the monthof May, 7.
2 million passengers boarded American aircraft, and the airline flew 10.3 billiobn revenue passenger miles, down from 11.7 billion revenue passenger milexs a year earlier. American’s load factor fell to 79.2 percent, down from 81.7 percentg a year earlier.