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Show Frontier's July Traffic Shows Improvement DENVER, Colorado Increased In-creased passenger traffic in July on Frontier Airlines Air-lines made it the first month in 1970 when results exceeded earlier economic; econom-ic; traffic forecasts. Revenue Rev-enue passenger miles in- -... . creaseu oy j.0 per cent over ov-er July a year ago. . This was accomplished with a .12 per cent increase in available seat miles. The result was a 48.1 percent load factor system wide, compared with a 46.1 percent per-cent load factor in July, 1969. This was announced by E. Paul Burke, president presi-dent of the carrier. During July, 96,850,000 revenue passenger miles jreflected a 16 per cent increase over the 83,147,-000 83,147,-000 revenue passenger miles mil-es flown in July 1969, (A revenue passenger mile ii one fare paying passenger transported one mile.) ' This was the result of 232,-421 232,-421 passengers using the airlines on trips which averaged av-eraged 417 miles per passenger. pas-senger. Available seat miles totaled to-taled 201,351,000, an in- . crease of 12 per cent over seat mile availability in the same period a year ago. (Available seat miles represents total number of seats available for the transportation of revenue passengers multiplied by the number of miles which, those seats were . flown. |