FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dick Fontaine
Senior VP of Marketing
(307)432-7000
GREAT LAKES AVIATION REPORTS JANUARY TRAFFIC.
Cheyenne, Wyoming – February 8, 2001 – Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLUX) today announced preliminary passenger traffic results for the month of January.
Scheduled service generated 17,670,378 revenue passenger miles (RPMs), a 2.4 percent decrease from the same month last year. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 4.3 percent to 42,757,089. As a result load factor decreased 2.9 points to 41.3 percent. Passengers carried decreased 2.2 percent compared to January, 2000 to 74,952.
JANUARY STATISTICS
January, 2001 |
January, 2000 |
Change |
|
| Passengers Enplaned | 74,952 |
76,602 |
-2.2% |
| Revenue Passenger Miles (000) | 17,670 |
18,104 |
-2.4% |
| Available Seat Miles (000) | 42,757 |
40,979 |
+4.3% |
| Load Factor | 41.3% |
44.2% |
-2.9 points |
As of February 1, 2001, United Express flights were being provided at 58 airports in fourteen states with a fleet of eight Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and 40 Raytheon/Beech 1900D regional airliners. A total of 318 weekday flights are scheduled at three hubs, with 94 flights at Chicago-O'Hare, 216 flights at Denver and 8 flights at Minneapolis/St. Paul. In addition, the company operates four weekday round trip flights between Springfield, Illinois and Chicago-Meigs Field. All scheduled flights are operated under the United Express marketing identity.