US Airways said today that traffic on its airlines rose 4.7 per cent in January as capacity and occupancy both rose slightly.
On US Airways, America West and US Airways Express brand flights, the company recorded 4.87 billion revenue passenger miles, up from 4.65 billion revenue passenger miles in January 2006.
A revenue passenger mile is equal to one paying passenger flown one mile.
Company-wide, capacity edged up less than 1 per cent, to 6.65 billion available seat miles from 6.6 billion. Domestic capacity rose 1.4 per cent, while international capacity fell 2.2 per cent.
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Load factor, an industry measure of occupancy, rose 2.8 points to 73.3 per cent.