Republic Airways Reports May 2011 Traffic

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET), today reported preliminary passenger traffic results for May 2011. The Company generated 1.9 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs), a 2% increase from the same month last year, while capacity was up 1% to 2.3 billion available seat miles (ASMs). Block hours were 82,515 in May 2011, unchanged from May 2010. Consolidated load factor was 82%, unchanged from May 2010. Over 2.8 million passengers were carried during the month, a 1% reduction from the same month last year.

May
	2011	2010
	Total	Total	Change
RPMs (000s)	1,862,243	1,834,516	2%
ASMs (000s)	2,260,988	2,241,177	1%
Block Hrs	82,515	82,528	0%
LF %	82%	82%	0 pp
Passengers	2,803,464	2,820,869	-1%
Quarter to Date
	2011	2010
	Total	Total	Change
RPMs (000s)	3,581,341	3,588,755	0%
ASMs (000s)	4,440,538	4,427,997	0%
Block Hrs	162,283	162,638	0%
LF %	81%	81%	(0) pp
Passengers	5,360,608	5,500,482	-3%
Year to Date
	2011	2010
	Total	Total	Change
RPMs (000s)	8,280,332	8,352,835	-1%
ASMs (000s)	10,777,049	10,876,905	-1%
Block Hrs	396,862	402,612	-1%
LF %	77%	77%	0 pp
Passengers	12,355,577	12,530,113	-1%

Republic Airways Holdings, based in Indianapolis, Indiana is an airline holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, collectively “the airlines.” The airlines offer scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,600 flights daily to 135 cities in 43 states, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico under branded operations at Frontier, and through fixed-fee airline services agreements with five major U.S. airlines. The fixed-fee flights are operated under an airline partner brand, such as AmericanConnection, Continental Express, Delta Connection, United Express, and US Airways Express. The airlines currently employ approximately 10,500 aviation professionals and operate 281 aircraft.