FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines reported that August traffic increased 3.1 percent versus the same period last year. Capacity increased by 3.2 percent year over year, resulting in a load factor of 84.6 percent, which was within 0.1 points of last year's load factor.
Domestic traffic increased 0.6 percent year over year on 0.8 percent more capacity. International traffic increased by 7.1 percent relative to last year on a capacity increase of 7.0 percent.
American boarded 7.7 million passengers in August. Detailed traffic and capacity are attached. AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES August 2010 2009 CHANGE REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000) SYSTEM 11,512,213 11,170,359 3.1% D.O.T. DOMESTIC 6,969,227 6,928,717 0.6 INTERNATIONAL 4,542,986 4,241,643 7.1 ATLANTIC 1,895,823 1,867,016 1.5 LATIN AMERICA 2,080,750 1,908,242 9.0 PACIFIC 566,413 466,385 21.4 AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000) SYSTEM 13,614,380 13,191,390 3.2% D.O.T. DOMESTIC 8,109,508 8,044,887 0.8 INTERNATIONAL 5,504,872 5,146,503 7.0 ATLANTIC 2,256,754 2,246,673 0.4 LATIN AMERICA 2,564,848 2,319,592 10.6 PACIFIC 683,270 580,238 17.8 LOAD FACTOR SYSTEM 84.6% 84.7% -0.1 pts D.O.T. DOMESTIC 85.9 86.1 -0.2 INTERNATIONAL 82.5 82.4 0.1 ATLANTIC 84 83.1 0.9 LATIN AMERICA 81.1 82.3 -1.1 PACIFIC 82.9 80.4 2.5 PASSENGERS BOARDED 7,712,854 7,723,404 -0.1% SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) 156,570 137,913 13.5% AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES YEAR-TO-DATE August 2010 2009 CHANGE REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000) SYSTEM 84,391,243 82,972,580 1.7% D.O.T. DOMESTIC 52,232,730 52,103,055 0.2 INTERNATIONAL 32,158,513 30,869,525 4.2 ATLANTIC 12,578,168 12,540,389 0.3 LATIN AMERICA 15,561,739 14,728,953 5.7 PACIFIC 4,018,605 3,600,183 11.6 AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000) SYSTEM 102,617,020 102,875,431 -0.3% D.O.T. DOMESTIC 62,498,678 62,579,059 -0.1 INTERNATIONAL 40,118,342 40,296,373 -0.4 ATLANTIC 15,574,282 16,253,632 -4.2 LATIN AMERICA 19,768,692 19,493,660 1.4 PACIFIC 4,775,368 4,549,081 5.0 LOAD FACTOR SYSTEM 82.2% 80.7% 1.6 pts D.O.T. DOMESTIC 83.6 83.3 0.3 INTERNATIONAL 80.2 76.6 3.6 ATLANTIC 80.8 77.2 3.6 LATIN AMERICA 78.7 75.6 3.2 PACIFIC 84.2 79.1 5.0 PASSENGERS BOARDED 58,126,180 58,313,835 -0.3% SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) 1,244,498 1,044,082 19.2% Current AMR Corp. releases can be accessed on the Internet. The address is http://www.aa.com/
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