Frontier Airlines Reports December and Full Year 2012 Traffic

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frontier Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET), today reported preliminary traffic results for December 2012. For the month, Frontier’s load factor increased by 2 points from December 2011 to 87%. Frontier’s traffic decreased 10%, to 0.9 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) on a 12% decrease in capacity to 1.1 billion available seat miles (ASMs). Frontier Airlines served 1.0 million passengers in December.

Frontier’s annual load factor for 2012 also increased by 2 points from 2011 to 88%, a new annual record for the airline. Capacity in 2012 declined by 8% to 13.8 billion ASMs while traffic decreased only 6% to 12.1 billion RPMs.

		December
		2012	2011
		Total	Total	Change
MAINLINE
	RPMs (000s)	845,294	875,145	-3%
	ASMs (000s)	963,810	1,007,896	-4%
	Block Hrs	17,337	18,768	-8%
	LF %	88%	87%	1 pt
	Passengers	862,761	901,770	-4%
REGIONAL
	RPMs (000s)	87,870	165,603	-47%
	ASMs (000s)	105,927	211,925	-50%
	Block Hrs	3,499	7,864	-56%
	LF %	83%	78%	5 pts
	Passengers	156,071	276,600	-44%
CONSOLIDATED
	RPMs (000s)	933,164	1,040,748	-10%
	ASMs (000s)	1,069,737	1,219,821	-12%
	Block Hrs	20,836	26,631	-22%
	LF %	87%	85%	2 pts
	Passengers	1,018,832	1,178,370	-14%
		Quarter to Date
		2012	2011
		Total	Total	Change
MAINLINE
	RPMs (000s)	2,504,619	2,587,688	-3%
	ASMs (000s)	2,818,082	2,934,013	-4%
	Block Hrs	50,662	54,242	-7%
	LF %	89%	88%	1 pt
	Passengers	2,596,521	2,731,199	-5%
REGIONAL
	RPMs (000s)	292,034	493,249	-41%
	ASMs (000s)	348,292	615,696	-43%
	Block Hrs	11,251	23,211	-52%
	LF %	84%	80%	4 pts
	Passengers	515,144	834,588	-38%
CONSOLIDATED
	RPMs (000s)	2,796,653	3,080,937	-9%
	ASMs (000s)	3,166,374	3,549,709	-11%
	Block Hrs	61,913	77,453	-20%
	LF %	88%	87%	1 pt
	Passengers	3,111,665	3,565,787	-13%
		Year to Date
		2012	2011
		Total	Total	Change
MAINLINE
	RPMs (000s)	10,579,176	10,270,595	3%
	ASMs (000s)	11,908,265	11,779,131	1%
	Block Hrs	214,494	219,359	-2%
	LF %	89%	87%	2 pts
	Passengers	10,700,669	10,583,331	1%
REGIONAL
	RPMs (000s)	1,529,558	2,628,647	-42%
	ASMs (000s)	1,865,443	3,257,489	-43%
	Block Hrs	61,739	129,941	-52%
	LF %	82%	81%	1 pt
	Passengers	2,545,440	4,354,652	-42%
CONSOLIDATED
	RPMs (000s)	12,108,734	12,899,243	-6%
	ASMs (000s)	13,773,708	15,036,619	-8%
	Block Hrs	276,233	349,300	-21%
	LF %	88%	86%	2 pts
	Passengers	13,246,109	14,937,983	-11%

About Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET), an airline holding company that also owns Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America. Currently in its 19th year of operations, Frontier offers service to more than 80 destinations in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. The airline employs more than 4,500 aviation professionals, operating from its hub at Denver International Airport. For in-depth information on Frontier Airlines and to book tickets, visit www.flyfrontier.com.