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Show Frontier Traffic Shows Increase During May DENVER, COLO, June 11, 1968 Revenue passenger miles flown by Frontier Airlines Air-lines during May increased 69 per cent over the same month one year ago. Passengers Passen-gers carried ere up 34 per cent resulting in May being the second consecutive month during which over 200,000 passengers pas-sengers had been flown. This was reported today by Lewis W. Dymond. president and chairman of the board of the Denver-based airline. During this past May, 70, 694,000 revenue passenger miles mi-les were flown compared with 41,943,000 revenue pas-.senger pas-.senger miles in May of 1967. These increased revenue passenger pas-senger miles were flown by 201.134 passengers which resulted re-sulted in a 34 per cent gain over the 149,543 passengers flown during May of last year, while available seat miles increased in-creased 63 per cent. Frontier's average passenger passen-ger haul has increased lo 351 miles per passenger compared compar-ed with 280 miles recorded for May one year ago. Additional new aircraft, both Boeing 727's and Con-vair Con-vair 580 jet-prop's as well as new markets such as Frontier Airline's newest city, Las Vegas, Ve-gas, are attributed as key factors for the traffic increase Salt Lake City headed the Frontier-served Utah cities during May with a 63 per cent increase in passenger traffic."' Boarding of 7,234 exceeded by 2,800 the 4,434 figure reported report-ed for May one year ago. Air cargo boarded Frontier flights at Salt lake City posted post-ed a 32 per cent gain with 176, 955 pounds. This comptres with 129,719 pounds flown during dur-ing May 1967. Individual categories cat-egories of cargo boarded at Salt Lake City show the following fol-lowing increases: Air express, up 47 per cent, with 10,229 pounds compared with 6,951 pounds in May last year: air freight gained 41 per cent with 146,018 pounds. This compares with 103,832 pounds last year. Mail, increased by 9 per cent with 20,708 pounds compared with 18,938 pounds for the same period one year ago. Passenger boardings at the Frontier served cities of Vernal Ver-nal and Moab decreased by 1 percent and 9 percent respectively. re-spectively. Attributing in to part to the decrease was the temprary reduction of service ser-vice for these cires. Full service, ser-vice, however, is now reinstated rein-stated for Vernal and Moab |