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Show Frontier Lists Big Gains, But Moab Down Frontier Airlines recorded a 47 per cent increase in February Feb-ruary in passenger miles flown compared with results for the same month in 1967. This report was made ", by Lewis W. Dymond, president and chairman of the board of the carrier. Traffic from the Moab terminal ter-minal at Canyonlands Airport, however, showed a big drop from February of 1967, when better boarding schedules, , in particular to Salt Lake City, were in effect. Moab boarded only 155 passengers in February Feb-ruary as opposed to 254 for the same month last year 39 per cent drop. ' . ;: Passenger miles totaled 54,-363,000 54,-363,000 in contrast with the 37,060,000 passenger miles of February last year. The new February travel record was established by 165,093 nas- sengers. These passengers were a 25 per cent increase over the 131,721 travelers us ing the carrier in February, 1967. ' In comenting on the increase, in-crease, Dymond said, "Contributing "Con-tributing to increased passenger passen-ger travel this past month was the growing use made of the airline's promotional fares. far-es. Discounts on 'Nighthawk' jet flights and increased use of the Standby Fares available avail-able system wide has resulted result-ed in more people taking longer trips on Frontier." ' Salt Lake City showed .an increase of 56 per cent over February, 1967. Vernal, the only other Utah city served by Frontier, showed a slight drop, boarding one passenger less than Moab during the month. |