Revenue passenger miles decreased 15.28% from 621,100,000 in 2007 to 526,170,000 in 2008. Passenger enplanements decreased 23.05% from 1,466,185 in June 2007 to 1,128,237 in June 2008. Year-over-year load factor for the month of June was 78.62% in 2008 compared to 81.02% in 2007. Mesa's on-time performance for June was 67.6%.
go!'s preliminary traffic figures for June 2008 indicate that its operations generated 17.9 million available seat miles, 12.3 million revenue passenger miles and 86,021 passengers, compared with 63,965 in June 2007. Load factor for June 2008 was 68.65%, compared to 72.07% for the same period in 2007. Hawai'i's low fare airline recorded an on-time performance rate of 84%.
June Results Jun-08 Jun-07 Change
Revenue Passenger
Miles (000) 526,170 621,100 -15.28%
Available Seat
Miles (000) 669,283 766,574 -12.69%
Passengers Carried 1,128,237 1,466,185 -23.05%
Load Factor 78.62% 81.02% (2.4) pts
Year-to-date Results YTD 08 YTD 07 Change
Revenue Passenger
Miles (000) 3,007,159 3,519,537 -14.56%
Available Seat
Miles (000) 4,061,101 4,593,792 -11.60%
Passengers Carried 6,803,681 8,356,278 -18.58%
Load Factor 74.05% 76.62% (2.6) pts
"Unfortunately much of the operation was impacted by severe weather and air traffic control issues significantly impacting our on time performance," said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein. Adding, "I would like once more to thank our employees for their superb effort and continued support."
Mesa currently operates 180 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 124 cities, 38 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Bahamas and Mexico. Mesa operates as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines and go!. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go! This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 5,000 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.
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