US Airways Reports Record November Load Factor

TEMPE, AZ -- US Airways Group, Inc. today announced November and year-to-date 2010 traffic results. Mainline revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for the month were 4.5 billion, up 7.8 percent versus November 2009. Mainline capacity was 5.6 billion available seat miles (ASMs), up 3.4 percent versus November 2009. Mainline passenger load factor was 80.6 percent, a record for the month of November and up 3.3 points versus November 2009.
US Airways’ President Scott Kirby said, “Our November consolidated (mainline and Express) passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) and total revenue per available seat mile each increased approximately 6 percent versus the same period last year.
“Our team did an outstanding job of taking care of our customers in November. For the month, our preliminary on-time performance as reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) was 86.0 percent with a record completion factor of 99.6 percent. In addition, our preliminary November baggage handling performance was the best since 2005.”
The following summarizes US Airways Group’s traffic results for the month and year-to-date ended November 30, 2010 and 2009, consisting of mainline operated flights as well as US Airways Express flights operated by wholly owned subsidiaries PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines.

About US Airways
US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,100 flights per day and serves more than 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The airline employs more than 31,000 aviation professionals worldwide and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers its customers 21,000 daily flights to 1,160 airports in 181 countries. Together with its US Airways Express partners, the airline serves approximately 80 million passengers each year and operates hubs in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix, and a focus city in Washington, D.C. at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. US Airways was the only airline included as one of the 50 best companies to work for in the U.S. by LATINA Style magazine’s 50 Report for 2010. For the sixth year in a row, the airline also earned a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality index, a leading indicator of companies’ attitudes and policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and customers.
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