Republic Airways Holdings Inc. says July traffic more than doubled from a year ago, after the company bought Frontier Airlines.
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The company said Tuesday that paying passengers flew 2.06 billion miles on the company's planes last month, up from 907.4 million in July 2009. Frontier accounted for about three-fifths of Republic's traffic.
Passenger-carrying capacity also doubled, to 2.38 billion available seat miles from 1.14 billion a year earlier. Seat miles are the product of miles flown times seats on the plane.
Average occupancy rose to 86 percent from 79 percent a year ago.
Republic is
merging Midwest Airlines operations into Frontier, and it also owns Chautauqua
Airlines and other carriers that operate regional flights for major airlines,
including Delta and American.