Frontier Airlines February Traffic up 2%

Frontier Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings RJET, today reported preliminary traffic results for February 2011.

Frontier's traffic increased 2% to 853 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs) while capacity was down 3% to 1.11 billion available seat miles (ASMs). Frontier Airlines served 961k passengers in February, a slight increase from February 2010. Frontier also achieved its twelfth consecutive record monthly load factor this month.

February's load factor was 77% compared to 73% in the same month last year.