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AirTran Airways Reports All-Time Record May Traffic

2008-06-04

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AirTran Airways For May, traffic grew by 18.2 percent to more than 1.7 billion RPMs based on a 14.0 percent increase in capacity. The company's load factor for the month was 79.3 percent. The airline enplaned more than 2.2 million passengers for the month, a 6.0 percent increase from May 2007.

                     AirTran Airways May 2008 Traffic

                              (Preliminary)



                                     May 2008      May 2007      Change

  Revenue Passenger Miles (000)     1,734,069     1,466,649   18.2 percent



  Available Seat Miles (000)        2,187,920     1,919,752   14.0 percent



  Load Factor                    79.3 percent  76.4 percent     2.9 points



  Passengers Enplaned               2,205,732     2,080,281    6.0 percent







                                   Y-T-D 2008    Y-T-D 2007      Change

  Revenue Passenger Miles (000)     7,590,023     6,542,088   16.0 percent



  Available Seat Miles (000)       10,001,642     8,984,983   11.3 percent



  Load Factor                    75.9 percent  72.8 percent     3.1 points



  Passengers Enplaned               9,912,316     9,157,419    8.2 percent