FORT WORTH (dpa-AFX) - American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp. (AAMRQ.PK), reported that its traffic in March 2012 increased 1.3% from March 2011, on a capacity decrease of 1.4%.
The airline said its March 2012 traffic rose 1.3% to 10.80 billion revenue passenger miles or RPMs from 10.66 billion RPMs in the same period last year.
The airline's March available seat miles or capacity was 13.009 billion, down 1.4% from 13.28 billion in the prior year period. Load factor for March 2012 was 82.5%, up 2.2 points from 80.2% reported in March 2011.
Passenger boardings for March 2012 increased 2.4 percent to 7.60 million compared to 7.42 for the same period last year.
in a separate press release, American Eagle, a unit of AMR Corp. (AMR), reported a March traffic increase of 6.0 percent year-over-year as capacity decreased 0.9 percent.
American Eagle said that its traffic for March 2012 increased 6.0% to 836.85 million revenue passenger miles or RPMs from 789.59 million RPMs in the prior year month.
Capacity declined 0.9% to 1.10 billion available seat miles or ASMs from 1.11 billion ASMs in the year-ago month. Load factor improved 5.0 points to 75.9% from 71.0% in March 2011.
American Eagle boarded almost 1.7 million passengers in March.
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